avènement
French, noun
avènement is spelled A-V-È-N-E-M-E-N-T (9 letters) and appears 5.8 times per million words in written French, the 10,141st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Avènement is a French masculine noun meaning “accession” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, avénement is a different word: “alternative form of avènement”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Venue ; arrivée”.
What does avènement mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineaccession
- 2
masculineadvent
noun
- 1
masculinealternative form of avènement
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Venue ; arrivée. 2. Élévation à une dignité suprême. 3. Venue de Jésus-Christ sur terre.
noun: 1. Variante orthographique de avènement.
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 avènement
- avènements plural
- avénement alternative
- avénements plural
- avenement archaic
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is avènement in French?
avènement appears 5.8 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).