avarice
French, noun/a.va.ʁis/
avarice is spelled A-V-A-R-I-C-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 37,709th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Avarice is a French feminine noun meaning “greed; avarice” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Attachement excessif à la possession d’argent, de richesses, sans en faire l’usage”.
What does avarice mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininegreed; avarice
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Attachement excessif à la possession d’argent, de richesses, sans en faire l’usage.
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 avarice
- avarices plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce avarice?
- /a.va.ʁis/
- \a.va.ʁis\
- [a.va.ʁis]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to avarice
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is avarice in French?
avarice appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).