aval
\a.val\
The verdict
“aval” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,657. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,657
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Côté vers lequel descend un cours d'eau, à l'inverse de l'amont.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aval · aval · French
aval · rank #8,657 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,657
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH atout
Nearest frequency peer: atout (-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 « aval »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- argentin
argentin
91,347 corpus weight
- arte
arte
91,346 corpus weight
- atout
atout
91,345 corpus weight
- aval
aval
91,344 corpus weight
- balcon
balcon
91,343 corpus weight
- battant
battant
91,342 corpus weight
What this shows « aval » 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 | aval |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.val\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #8,657 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « aval »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around aval (IPA \a.val\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,657 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for aval, with forms such as "aavl", "avall", and "avla". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ave", "axa", "aya", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is aval, spelled A-V-A-L.
Definition
- 1Côté vers lequel descend un cours d'eau, à l'inverse de l'amont.
- 2Après.
- 3Abréviation de « aval des urgences » ; désigne les services de l’hôpital pouvant accueillir les patients passés par le service d’accueil des urgences, selon la pathologie diagnostiquée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how aval appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si par malheur les crues de l’Ourthe coïncidaient avec celles de la Meuse, des inondations catastrophiques affectaient toute la vallée en aval de Liège.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aavl
- avall
- avla
- avval
- vaal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of aval - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).