avec plaisir
\av.ɛk plɛ.ziʁ\
The verdict
“avec plaisir” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an interjection - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Volontiers, avec joie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avec plaisir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \av.ɛk plɛ.ziʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “avec plaisir” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for avec plaisir is 12 letters long, classified as an interjection, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \av.ɛk plɛ.ziʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
avec plaisir has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is avec plaisir, spelled A-V-E-C- -P-L-A-I-S-I-R.
Definition
- 1Volontiers, avec joie.
- 2Formule de politesse donnée en réponse à un remerciement.
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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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Using “avec plaisir”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-V-E-C- -P-L-A-I-S-I-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \av.ɛk plɛ.ziʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.