avaient
\a.vɛ\
The verdict
“avaient” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #377. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #377
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de avoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avaient · avaient · French
avaient · rank #377 · 9 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #377
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH chef
Nearest frequency peer: chef (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « avaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- or
or
99,628 corpus weight
- plutôt
plutôt
99,627 corpus weight
- avaient
avaient
99,624 corpus weight
- chef
chef
99,623 corpus weight
- Europe
Europe
99,622 corpus weight
- fort
fort
99,621 corpus weight
What this shows « avaient » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | avaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #377 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « avaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around avaient (IPA \a.vɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #377 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de avoir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for avaient, with forms such as "aavient", "avaeint", and "avaiennt". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "avait", "avant", "Avent", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is avaient, spelled A-V-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de avoir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how avaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais on s’expliquera facilement cette particularité si l’on réfléchit que les minerais de fer, qui sont presque toujours à l’état terreux et présentent très rarement l’éclat métallique, n’avaient rien qui les signalât à l’attention des premiers hommes.
A moins d’une lieue de Vendœuvres, en allant sur le marais de Bellebouche, au lieu dit « le button aux fades », une famille d’hommes libres, venant de la région d’Erfurt, a été pourvue par notre souverain d’un domaine, en remplacement d’Aquitains qui avaient péri pendant la guerre, il y a cela plus de vingt ans.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aavient
- avaeint
- avaiennt
- avaientt
- avaietn
- avainet
- aviaent
- avvaient
- vaaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of avaient - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).