avancer
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,503
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
avancer is aFrenchverb. It means: Pousser en avant ; porter en avant. Pronounced \a.vɑ̃.se\. It ranks #2,503 in French word frequency. Often confused with avances and avancez.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avancer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vɑ̃.se\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,503 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for avancer is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.vɑ̃.se\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,503 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 16 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for avancer, with forms such as "aavncer", "avacner", and "avanccer". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "avances", "avancez", "avancera", 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 avancer, spelled A-V-A-N-C-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pousser en avant ; porter en avant.
- 2Rapprocher un objet de quelqu’un ou de quelque chose.
- 3Porter à un moment antérieur dans le temps.
- 4Faire progresser quelque chose.
- 5Faire progresser quelqu'un dans sa carrière, procurer de l'avancement.
- 6Payer par avance, payer avant que l’argent soit dû.
- 7Payer une somme pour le compte de quelqu’un, fournir aux frais de quelque entreprise.
- 8Mettre en avant ; proposer une chose comme véritable.
- 9Faire des progrès dans un travail, dans une carrière.
- 10ou Faire saillie.
- 11ou Aller, se porter en avant.
- 12ou Aller plus tard dans l’écoulement du temps.
- 13Prendre de l'avance, aller trop vite (en parlant d'une montre, d'une horloge etc.).
- 14Faire des progrès, en parlant des personnes ou des choses.
- 15S’être donné une peine inutile ou que l’on a compromis ses intérêts par de fausses démarches, par une conduite maladroite.
- 16En matière d’affaires et de négociations, mettre en avant quelque chose qui fait contracter une sorte d’engagement.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aavncer,avacner,avanccer,avancerr,avancre,avanecr,avanncer,avnacer,avvancer,vaancer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for avancer
Misspelling Variants of "avancer"
Frequency rank: #2,503 in French
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