avec peine
\a.vɛk pɛn\
The verdict
“avec peine” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Avec difficulté, avec effort.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avec peine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \a.vɛk pɛn\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “avec peine” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for avec peine is 10 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.vɛk pɛn\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Avec difficulté, avec effort.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for avec peine, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is avec peine, spelled A-V-E-C- -P-E-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Avec difficulté, avec effort.
Antonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-V-E-C- -P-E-I-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.