avança
\a.vɑ̃.sa\
The verdict
“avança” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,693. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,693
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de avancer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avanca · avança · French
avança · rank #32,693 · 8 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,693
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH avantageuses
Nearest frequency peer: avantageuses (-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 « avança »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- attique
attique
67,311 corpus weight
- autoroutier
autoroutier
67,310 corpus weight
- avantageuses
avantageuses
67,309 corpus weight
- avança
avança
67,308 corpus weight
- avouent
avouent
67,307 corpus weight
- avouons
avouons
67,306 corpus weight
What this shows « avança » 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 | avança |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vɑ̃.sa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #32,693 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « avança »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around avança (IPA \a.vɑ̃.sa\), averb. Corpus frequency is #32,693 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de avancer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for avança, with forms such as "aavnça", "avanaç", and "avanca". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "avant", "avancé", "avants", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is avança, spelled A-V-A-N-Ç-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de avancer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how avança appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il avança sa main droite, j’y mis ma main gauche, et nous nous serrâmes nos mains, moi très attendri, lui sans retenir cette fois deux grosses larmes qui coulèrent sur ses joues déjà flétries.
Dutocq s’avança donc tout seul au milieu de ce congrès de gueux, et il entendit son nom répété par la foule, car il était difficile qu’il ne rencontrât pas quelque justiciable, comme Théodose y eût rencontré des clients.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aavnça
- avanaç
- avanca
- avannça
- avaçna
- avnaça
- avvança
- vaança
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of avança - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).