avances
\a.vɑ̃s\
The verdict
“avances” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,998. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,998
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Premières recherches ou premières démarches pour amener une réconciliation, un accommodement, un traité, voire pour former une liaison d’amour ou d’amitié.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avances · avances · French
avances · rank #10,998 · 10 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,998
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH autopsie
Nearest frequency peer: autopsie (-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 « avances »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- assistants
assistants
89,007 corpus weight
- attrape
attrape
89,006 corpus weight
- autisme
autisme
89,005 corpus weight
- autopsie
autopsie
89,004 corpus weight
- avances
avances
89,003 corpus weight
- barbares
barbares
89,002 corpus weight
What this shows « avances » 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 | avances |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.vɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,998 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « avances »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around avances (IPA \a.vɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,998 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Premières recherches ou premières démarches pour amener une réconciliation, un accommodement, un traité, voire pour former une liaison d’amour ou d’amitié.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for avances, with forms such as "aavnces", "avacnes", and "avancces". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "avants", "avenues", "avancez", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is avances, spelled A-V-A-N-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Premières recherches ou premières démarches pour amener une réconciliation, un accommodement, un traité, voire pour former une liaison d’amour ou d’amitié.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how avances appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Philippe se félicitait de son flair et mourait d'envie de serrer contre lui les rondeurs à la fois dissimulées et révélées par la robe moulante. Elle repoussa ses avances avec une pudeur de violette, qui ne fit que la lui rendre plus désirable.
Ce n’est pas lui qui a recherché cette femme, elle a fait les avances, toutes les avances.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aavnces
- avacnes
- avancces
- avancess
- avancse
- avanecs
- avannces
- avnaces
- avvances
- vaances
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of avances - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).