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avance

French, noun

avance is spelled A-V-A-N-C-E (6 letters) and appears 87 times per million words in written French, the 964th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Avance is a French feminine noun meaning “progression, advance” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of avancer. With an accent, avancé is a different word: “advanced (well developed)”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fait d’avancer”.

What does avance mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminineprogression, advance

    à l'avance

  2. 2

    feminineadvance (amount of money or credit given as a loan, or paid before it is due)

    avance sur salaire

  3. 3

    feminine(romantic) advances

    faire des avances

verb

  1. 1

    first-person singular present indicative of avancer

adjective

as avancé
  1. 1

    advanced (well developed)

  2. 2

    advanced (difficult; complicated)

verb

as avancé
  1. 1

    past participle of avancer

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Qui fait saillie. 2. Qui est en avance sur la normale, sur les autres, dans l’ordre physique ou intellectuel. 3. Qui est ou se veut en avant des idées qui ont cours en son temps. 4. Qualifie une viande qu’on a trop tardé à manger et qui a beaucoup perdu de sa qualité, qui est près de se gâter.

noun: 1. Fait d’avancer. 2. Ce qu’on a mis en avant. 3. Partie de bâtiment qui anticipe sur une rue, sur une cour, et qui sort de l’alignement du reste du bâtiment. 4. Espace de chemin qu’on a devant quelqu’un.

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 avance

  • avancée feminine
  • avancés masculine plural
  • avancées feminine plural
  • avances plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to avance

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is avance in French?

avance appears 87 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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