avatar
\a.va.taʁ\
The verdict
“avatar” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,715. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,715
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dans la religion hindouiste, chacune des incarnations du dieu Vishnou.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avatar · avatar · French
avatar · rank #11,715 · 8 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,715
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH autoritaire
Nearest frequency peer: autoritaire (-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 « avatar »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- arrangements
arrangements
88,289 corpus weight
- Aurélie
Aurélie
88,288 corpus weight
- autoritaire
autoritaire
88,287 corpus weight
- avatar
avatar
88,286 corpus weight
- aveu
aveu
88,285 corpus weight
- Bagdad
Bagdad
88,284 corpus weight
What this shows « avatar » 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 | avatar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.va.taʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #11,715 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « avatar »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around avatar (IPA \a.va.taʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,715 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for avatar, with forms such as "aavtar", "avaatr", and "avatarr". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "avatars", "avaler", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is avatar, spelled A-V-A-T-A-R.
Definition
- 1Dans la religion hindouiste, chacune des incarnations du dieu Vishnou.
- 2Métamorphose, transformation d’un objet ou d’un individu qui en a déjà subi plusieurs.
- 3Mésaventure, malheur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how avatar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chenguza est beau comme le grand Avatar, (descendant de Bram) et quoique élevé pour le sacerdoce dans les austérités du cloître, il a l'imagination vive, le désir de s'instruire, et un penchant décidé pour la volupté.
Retiré dans les forêts, placé à la tête de nombreux pasteurs, qui ont dû se plaire à grossir sa renommée, et dont les bras l'ont aidé à renverser le tyran, Crichna évidemment dut sortir des Djangles, où il s'était tenu jusque-là dans le mystère, comme un homme environné d'une sorte d'auréole merveilleuse, qui le fit considérer de bonne heure comme un Avat…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aavtar
- avaatr
- avatarr
- avatra
- avattar
- avtaar
- avvatar
- vaatar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of avatar - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).