ava
\a.va\
The verdict
“ava” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,748) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,748
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Kava.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ava · ava · French
ava · rank #19,748 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,748
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH augure
Nearest frequency peer: augure (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « ava »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- arrêtant
arrêtant
80,257 corpus weight
- atteignait
atteignait
80,255 corpus weight
- augure
augure
80,254 corpus weight
- ava
ava
80,253 corpus weight
- Aziz
Aziz
80,251 corpus weight
- bander
bander
80,250 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ava » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ava |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.va\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,748 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ava »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ava is neighbouring look-alikes ("az", "aw", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \a.va\. Frequency #19,748 among 6,727 “A” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No misspelling variants are generated for ava in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "az", "aw", "ax", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is ava, spelled A-V-A.
Definition
- 1Kava.
- 2Boisson alcoolisée préparée à partir de la racine anesthésiante et euphorisante de cette arbre et du lait de coco.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ava appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
… y croissent naturellement, ainsi que le chi (dracœna terminalis); le mûrier à papier (broussonetia papyrÿera), et le kava ou l'ava (Piper methysticum).
Le vieux prêtre, ami des Anglais, était presque constamment à bord : il s'était réduit au plus fâcheux état par l'habitude de boire de l'ava, ….
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).