avale

\a.val\

/\a.val\/ verb

The verdict

“avale” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,347. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#17,347
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe avaler.

Corpus desk

Index FR-avale · avale · French

avale · rank #17,347 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #17,347
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH Auschwitz

Nearest frequency peer: Auschwitz (-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 « avale »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « avale » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

avale vs ave
60% similar
avale vs avant
60% similar
avale vs avoué
40% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for avale
PropertyValue
Headwordavale
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.val\
Letters5
Frequency rank#17,347
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « avale »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).avalese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Auschwitz » (#17,346), « aventuriers » (#17,348), « aucunes » (#17,345). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « avale » est au #17,347. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around avale (IPA \a.val\), averb. Corpus frequency is #17,347 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for avale, with forms such as "aavle", "avael", and "avalle". 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", "avant", "avoué", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is avale, spelled A-V-A-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe avaler.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe avaler.
  3. 3
    Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe avaler.
  4. 4
    Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe avaler.
  5. 5
    Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe avaler.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how avale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Certains joueurs ont des habitudes déroutantes après une rencontre à l’image de Madosh Tambwe : « J’avale quatre cheeseburgers, deux boîtes de tenders, deux wraps et un burger ».
  2. Vic en avale de travers son sacro-saint rocher praliné, tousse, manque s’étouffer.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aavle
  • avael
  • avalle
  • avlae
  • avvale
  • vaale

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of avale - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

aavle2avael2avalle1avlae2avvale1vaale2
Edit distance from "avale"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "avale"?
"avale" is spelled A-V-A-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.val\.
What does "avale" mean?
As a verb, "avale" means: Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe avaler.
What words are commonly confused with "avale"?
"avale" is commonly confused with "ave", "avant", "avoué". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "avale"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "avale" is \a.val\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "avale" come from?
"avale" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "avale", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list