avaler
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,273
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
avaler is aFrenchverb. It means: Faire descendre par le gosier dans l’estomac. Pronounced \a.va.le\. It ranks #9,273 in French word frequency. Often confused with avare and avouer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avaler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.va.le\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,273 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for avaler is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.va.le\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,273 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for avaler, with forms such as "aavler", "avaelr", and "avalerr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "avare", "avouer", "avatar", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is avaler, spelled A-V-A-L-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Faire descendre par le gosier dans l’estomac.
- 2Manger ou boire rapidement ; manger sans mâcher ou en mâchant à peine.
- 3Absorber (en parlant d'un territoire).
- 4Absorber (en parlant d'un territoire).
- 5Anéantir en étant plus fort (en parlant d'un bruit).
- 6Parcourir des lieux, absorber rapidement.
- 7Croire.
- 8Accepter, supporter.
- 9Abaisser, faire descendre.
- 10Couper près du tronc.
- 11Suivre le courant de la rivière, vers l’aval.
- 12Pendre, descendre trop bas.
- 13Pour un distributeur, ne pas restituer une carte magnétique ou à puce, tout particulièrement une carte bancaire.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aavler,avaelr,avalerr,avaller,avalre,avlaer,avvaler,vaaler
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for avaler
Misspelling Variants of "avaler"
Frequency rank: #9,273 in French
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