avalement
French, noun/a.val.mɑ̃/
avalement is spelled A-V-A-L-E-M-E-N-T (9 letters) and appears about once in every 93 million words in written French, the 301,385th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Avalement is a French masculine noun meaning “descent; lowering” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de descendre, d’abaisser, et résultat de cette action”.
What does avalement mean in English?
noun
- 1
datedmasculinedescent; lowering
- 2
masculineact of swallowing
- 3
masculineavalement
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de descendre, d’abaisser, et résultat de cette action. 2. En ski, Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter) 3. Déglutition, absorption. 4. Fait de croire sans examen, avec naïveté.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of avalement
- avalements plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce avalement?
- /a.val.mɑ̃/
- \a.val.mɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is avalement in French?
avalement appears about once in every 93 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).