avaleuse
\a.va.løz\
The verdict
“avaleuse” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui a l’habitude d’avaler, de faire disparaitre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avaleuse · avaleuse · French
avaleuse · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avaleuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.va.løz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « avaleuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
avaleuse is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.va.løz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
avaleuse has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is avaleuse, spelled A-V-A-L-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui a l’habitude d’avaler, de faire disparaitre.
- 2Dispositif permettant le chargement automatique des pages dans une photocopieuse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how avaleuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je suis funambule, et ma dame, ajouta-t-il en prenant Minerva par les épaules pour la serrer contre lui, est une formidable avaleuse de sabres.
Son honneur était en jeu, il lui fallait impérativement remettre cette démoniaque machine, cette avaleuse de poussières et autres chatons cotonneux en état de fonctionnement.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.