Avallon
\a.va.lɔ̃\
The verdict
“Avallon” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,317. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,317
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de l’Yonne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avallon · Avallon · French
Avallon · rank #44,317 · 7 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,317
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH auvent
Nearest frequency peer: auvent (-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 « Avallon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- augustus
augustus
55,687 corpus weight
- autrice
autrice
55,686 corpus weight
- auvent
auvent
55,685 corpus weight
- Avallon
Avallon
55,684 corpus weight
- bafouée
bafouée
55,682 corpus weight
- balisage
balisage
55,680 corpus weight
What this shows « Avallon » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Avallon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \a.va.lɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #44,317 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Avallon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Avallon (IPA \a.va.lɔ̃\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #44,317 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Avallon, with forms such as "aavllon", "avallno", and "avallonn". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Avalon", "Apollon", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Avallon, spelled A-V-A-L-L-O-N.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de l’Yonne.
- 2Canton français, situé dans le département de l’Yonne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Avallon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vers le 15 septembre nous sommes retournés à notre point de départ, c'est à dire au petit village de Champien a cinq kms d’Avallon et à deux seulement de Pontaubert où j’ai pu revoir mon père et le prévenir que je venais de signer mon engagement définitif pour la durée de la guerre.
Deux ans et demi plus tard, c’est le « choc climatique » puisqu’il se retrouve sous-préfet d’arrondissement à Avallon, dans l’Yonne, une zone rurale.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aavllon
- avallno
- avallonn
- avaloln
- avlalon
- avvallon
- vaallon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Avallon - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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.
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