avare
French, noun/a.vaʁ/
avare is spelled A-V-A-R-E (5 letters) and appears 1.6 times per million words in written French, the 23,487th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Avare is a French feminine noun meaning “scrooge, miser, skinflint” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne avare”.
What does avare mean in English?
adjective
- 1
stingy, miserly
noun
- 1
femininemasculinescrooge, miser, skinflint
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui a un désir excessif d’accumuler. 2. Qui ne donne pas facilement une chose, qui en est très économe. 3. Qui n’accorde pas, qui ne prodigue pas.
noun: 1. Personne avare.
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 avare
- avares plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce avare?
- /a.vaʁ/
- \a.vaʁ\
- [a.vaʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to avare
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is avare in French?
avare appears 1.6 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).