avances
French, noun
avances is spelled A-V-A-N-C-E-S (7 letters) and appears 5.4 times per million words in written French, the 10,655th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Avances is a French noun meaning “plural of avance” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, avancés is a different word: “masculine plural of avancé”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Premières recherches ou premières démarches pour amener une réconciliation, un accommodement, un traité…”.
What does avances mean in English?
noun
- 1
plural of avance
verb
- 1
second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of avancer
verb
- 1
masculinemasculine plural of avancé
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Premières recherches ou premières démarches pour amener une réconciliation, un accommodement, un traité, voire pour former une liaison d’amour ou d’amitié.
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.
How common is avances in French?
avances appears 5.4 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).