avançon
French, noun\a.vɑ̃.sɔ̃\
avançon is spelled A-V-A-N-Ç-O-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 39 million words in written French, the 198,467th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Avançon is a French masculine noun meaning “snood (hair band, line attaching a fishhook)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Dans les corderies de marine, désignait le petit bout de bois que l’on ajoutait à l'extrémité des ailes d’un…”.
What does avançon mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesnood (hair band, line attaching a fishhook)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Dans les corderies de marine, désignait le petit bout de bois que l’on ajoutait à l'extrémité des ailes d’un touret. 2. Morceau de fil de pêche composé d’une matière résistante (acier, kevlar…) que l’on place en bout de ligne avant le leurre pour éviter une coupure par les dents d’un poisson carnassier, notamment le brochet.
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 avançon
- avançons plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce avançon?
- \a.vɑ̃.sɔ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is avançon in French?
avançon appears about once in every 39 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).