avare
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#23,458
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
avare is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui a un désir excessif d’accumuler. Pronounced \a.vaʁ\. Often confused with ave and avoué.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avare |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \a.vaʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #23,458 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for avare is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.vaʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #23,458 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for avare, with forms such as "aavre", "avaer", and "avarre". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ave", "avoué", "avéré", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is avare, spelled A-V-A-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui a un désir excessif d’accumuler.
- 2Qui ne donne pas facilement une chose, qui en est très économe.
- 3Qui n’accorde pas, qui ne prodigue pas.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aavre,avaer,avarre,avrae,avvare,vaare
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for avare
Misspelling Variants of "avare"
Frequency rank: #23,458 in French
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