auvents
\o.vɑ̃\
The verdict
“auvents” is uncommon French (frequency #82,692 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,692
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de auvent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-auvents · auvents · French
auvents · rank #82,692 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,692
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH autorisaient
Nearest frequency peer: autorisaient (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « auvents »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- atolls
atolls
17,313 corpus weight
- auditer
auditer
17,311 corpus weight
- autorisaient
autorisaient
17,310 corpus weight
- auvents
auvents
17,309 corpus weight
- avérant
avérant
17,308 corpus weight
- awareness
awareness
17,307 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « auvents » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | auvents |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o.vɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,692 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « auvents » en français
Rare enough to double-check
auvents is uncommon French at frequency #82,692 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \o.vɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de auvent.".
No misspelling variants are generated for auvents in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is auvents, spelled A-U-V-E-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de auvent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how auvents appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour s’en imprégner, il faut parcourir le quartier de Foncillon, ses auvents, ses escaliers, ses claustras, ses brise-soleil…
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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