aventurier
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#18,939
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
aventurier is aFrenchnoun. It means: Celui qui aime les aventures extraordinaires, qui court le monde et s’engage volontiers dans les entreprises hasardeuses où il peut espérer quelque avantage. Pronounced \a.vɑ̃.ty.ʁje\. Often confused with aventuriers and aventurière.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aventurier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.vɑ̃.ty.ʁje\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #18,939 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for aventurier is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.vɑ̃.ty.ʁje\. Corpus data places it at rank #18,939 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for aventurier, with forms such as "aevnturier", "avennturier", and "aventruier". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "aventuriers", "aventurière", "aventure", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is aventurier, spelled A-V-E-N-T-U-R-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Celui qui aime les aventures extraordinaires, qui court le monde et s’engage volontiers dans les entreprises hasardeuses où il peut espérer quelque avantage.
- 2Celui qui allait volontairement à la guerre, sans recevoir de solde et sans s’obliger aux gardes et aux autres fonctions militaires qui ne donnent que de la fatigue.
- 3Corsaire qui piratait sur les mers de l’Amérique et qu’on appelait autrement flibustiers et boucaniers.
- 4Celui qui est sans état et sans fortune et qui vit d’expédients.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aevnturier,avennturier,aventruier,aventturier,aventuirer,aventureir,aventurierr,aventurire,aventurrier,avenutrier,avetnurier,avneturier,avventurier,vaenturier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for aventurier
Misspelling Variants of "aventurier"
Frequency rank: #18,939 in French
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Nearby French words
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