avarice
\a.va.ʁis\
The verdict
“avarice” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,673. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,673
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Attachement excessif à la possession d’argent, de richesses, sans en faire l’usage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avarice · avarice · French
avarice · rank #37,673 · 9 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,673
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH audimat
Nearest frequency peer: audimat (-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 « avarice »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- attise
attise
62,331 corpus weight
- Aubrac
Aubrac
62,330 corpus weight
- audimat
audimat
62,329 corpus weight
- avarice
avarice
62,328 corpus weight
- azimuts
azimuts
62,327 corpus weight
- bagnolet
bagnolet
62,326 corpus weight
What this shows « avarice » 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 | avarice |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.va.ʁis\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #37,673 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « avarice »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around avarice (IPA \a.va.ʁis\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,673 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Attachement excessif à la possession d’argent, de richesses, sans en faire l’usage.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for avarice, with forms such as "aavrice", "avairce", and "avarcie". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "avare", "avancé", "Alaric", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is avarice, spelled A-V-A-R-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1Attachement excessif à la possession d’argent, de richesses, sans en faire l’usage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how avarice appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il se refuse tout, il se prive de tout, par pure avarice.
Son avarice le fait vivre d’une manière sordide.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aavrice
- avairce
- avarcie
- avaricce
- avariec
- avarrice
- avraice
- avvarice
- vaarice
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of avarice - 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).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).