avalant
\a.va.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“avalant” is uncommon French (frequency #54,416 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,416
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui va vers l'aval du cours d’eau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avalant · avalant · French
avalant · rank #54,416 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,416
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH autorisera
Nearest frequency peer: autorisera (-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 « avalant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- attrapez
attrapez
45,589 corpus weight
- Auclair
Auclair
45,588 corpus weight
- autorisera
autorisera
45,586 corpus weight
- avalant
avalant
45,585 corpus weight
- aérospatial
aérospatial
45,582 corpus weight
- aérée
aérée
45,581 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « avalant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avalant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.va.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,416 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « avalant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
avalant is uncommon French at frequency #54,416 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.va.lɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui va vers l'aval du cours d’eau.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for avalant, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is avalant, spelled A-V-A-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui va vers l'aval du cours d’eau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how avalant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
– D’où venaient les victimes ? – Des canaux du Centre, en passant par Nemours. Elles se dirigeaient vers la Seine. Elles étaient donc avalantes, comme on dit. – Et les montantes ? – Pas d’accident !
Lorsque le chargement du bateau ou du convoi au moment de l'essai est inférieur à 70 %, le déplacement autorisé en navigation avalante doit être fixé en fonction du chargement effectif, pour autant que les valeurs limites visées au point 2 .
Antonyms
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).