aven
\a.vɛn\
The verdict
“aven” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,167. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,167
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gouffre naturel à ouverture étroite et généralement verticale, creusé par les eaux d’infiltration, caractéristique des régions karstiques, le plus souvent développées dans les roches calcaires.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aven · aven · French
aven · rank #39,167 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,167
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Avalon
Nearest frequency peer: Avalon (-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 « aven »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- atteindrait
atteindrait
60,837 corpus weight
- augmentées
augmentées
60,836 corpus weight
- Avalon
Avalon
60,835 corpus weight
- aven
aven
60,834 corpus weight
- avoit
avoit
60,833 corpus weight
- ayatollah
ayatollah
60,832 corpus weight
What this shows « aven » 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 | aven |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.vɛn\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #39,167 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « aven »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around aven (IPA \a.vɛn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,167 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Gouffre naturel à ouverture étroite et généralement verticale, creusé par les eaux d’infiltration, caractéristique des régions karstiques, le plus souvent développées dans les roches calcaires.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for aven, with forms such as "aevn", "avenn", and "avne". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "axe", "avi", "aye", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is aven, spelled A-V-E-N.
Definition
- 1Gouffre naturel à ouverture étroite et généralement verticale, creusé par les eaux d’infiltration, caractéristique des régions karstiques, le plus souvent développées dans les roches calcaires.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how aven appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les observations de terrain nous apportent la preuve que cette roche ne s’est pas déposée dans l’aven par un processus naturel.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aevn
- avenn
- avne
- avven
- vaen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of aven - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).