avant-garde
\a.vɑ̃.ɡaʁd\
The verdict
“avant-garde” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie d’une armée qui marche la première.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avant-garde · avant-garde · French
avant-garde · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avant-garde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.vɑ̃.ɡaʁd\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
avant-garde is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.vɑ̃.ɡaʁd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for avant-garde in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is avant-garde, spelled A-V-A-N-T---G-A-R-D-E.
Definition
- 1Partie d’une armée qui marche la première.
- 2Partie d’un groupe qui est à la tête de ce dernier.
- 3La pointe du progrès ou du savoir.
- 4Fraction la plus consciente et la plus politisée du prolétariat.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how avant-garde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le 11 décembre, les avant-gardes ennemies étaient signalées aux environs de Château-Thierry.
De nombreuses unités blindées d’avant-garde étaient stoppées sur les routes, fautes de combustible : […]. Les appels radio des tankistes réclamant de l’essence se faisaient entendre sans cesse.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.