avalée

\a.va.le\

/\a.va.le\/ noun

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The verdict

“avalée” is uncommon French (frequency #52,501 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#52,501
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ce qu'un ouvrier fait en une fois.

Corpus desk

Index FR-avalee · avalée · French

avalée · rank #52,501 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #52,501
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH auditifs

Nearest frequency peer: auditifs (-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 « avalée »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « avalée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for avalée
PropertyValue
Headwordavalée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.va.le\
Letters6
Frequency rank#52,501
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « avalée » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.avaléetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « auditifs » (#52,500), « aventureuse » (#52,502), « auburn » (#52,499). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « avalée » est au #52,501. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

avalée is uncommon French at frequency #52,501 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.va.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for avalée, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is avalée, spelled A-V-A-L-É-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ce qu'un ouvrier fait en une fois.
  2. 2
    Quantité d'étoffe entre la perche et le faudet.
  3. 3
    Volume de liquide que l'on peut avaler en une fois. Gorgée (note : On dit aussi un avalon)

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Avalée, ou levée, quantité d'ouvrage faite sans dérouler l'ensuple.
  2. Le gosse souleva la gourde. Le vieux but trois grandes avalées.

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 "avalée"?
"avalée" is spelled A-V-A-L-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.va.le\.
What does "avalée" mean?
As a noun, "avalée" means: Ce qu'un ouvrier fait en une fois.
How do you pronounce "avalée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "avalée" is \a.va.le\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "avalée" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

auburn#52,499Aylmer#52,503cancre#52,548Caruso#52,554

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list