avancé

/\a.vɑ̃.se\/ adj

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,105

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

avancé is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui fait saillie. Pronounced \a.vɑ̃.se\. It ranks #5,105 in French word frequency. Often confused with avant and avare.

Key facts for avancé
PropertyValue
Headwordavancé
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\a.vɑ̃.se\
Letters6
Frequency rank#5,105
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of avancé in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for avancé is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.vɑ̃.se\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,105 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for avancé, with forms such as "aavncé", "avacné", and "avanccé". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "avant", "avare", "avenue", 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 avancé, spelled A-V-A-N-C-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui fait saillie.
  2. 2
    Qui est en avance sur la normale, sur les autres, dans l’ordre physique ou intellectuel.
  3. 3
    Qui est ou se veut en avant des idées qui ont cours en son temps.
  4. 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.
  5. 5
    Se dit par antiphrase de quelqu'un qui, après une action, n'a fait aucun progrès, n'a obtenu aucun résultat.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: aavncé,avacné,avanccé,avance,avanncé,avanéc,avnacé,avvancé,vaancé

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for avancé

Misspelling Variants of "avancé"

aavncé6avacné6avanccé7avance6avanncé7avanéc6avnacé6avvancé7
Misspelling Variants of "avancé"

Frequency rank: #5,105 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "avancé"?
"avancé" is spelled A-V-A-N-C-É. The IPA pronunciation is \a.vɑ̃.se\.
What does "avancé" mean?
As an adj, "avancé" means: Qui fait saillie.
What words are commonly confused with "avancé"?
"avancé" is commonly confused with "avant", "avare", "avenue". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "avancé"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "avancé" is \a.vɑ̃.se\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "avancé" come from?
"avancé" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.