avenue

\av.ny\

/\av.ny\/ noun

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The verdict

“avenue” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,315. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#3,315
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Voie urbaine d’importance et de taille diverses. Toutefois, en général, une avenue est moins importante qu’un boulevard.

Corpus desk

Index FR-avenue · avenue · French

avenue · rank #3,315 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,315
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH appelée

Nearest frequency peer: appelée (-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 « avenue »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « avenue » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

avenue vs aveu
67% similar
avenue vs avoué
50% similar
avenue vs avéré
33% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for avenue
PropertyValue
Headwordavenue
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\av.ny\
Letters6
Frequency rank#3,315
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « avenue »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).avenuese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « appelée » (#3,314), « axe » (#3,316), « Alex » (#3,313). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « avenue » est au #3,315. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around avenue (IPA \av.ny\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,315 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for avenue, with forms such as "aevnue", "aveneu", and "avennue". 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, "aveu", "avoué", "avéré", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 avenue, spelled A-V-E-N-U-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Voie urbaine d’importance et de taille diverses. Toutefois, en général, une avenue est moins importante qu’un boulevard.
  2. 2
    Allée plantée d'arbres conduisant à une habitation, à un édifice.
  3. 3
    Voie urbaine bordée d’arbres.
  4. 4
    Dans les villes, large artère rectiligne, ouvrant une perspective.
  5. 5
    Rue importante, quelle que soit son orientation, en particulier quand elle est bordée d’arbres.
  6. 6
    Chemin ou sentier pratiqué en vue d’une pipée.
  7. 7
    Moyen qui conduit à un but.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how avenue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La grande avenue était complètement déserte : on avait accordé trois heures aux habitants pour vider les lieux, et tout le monde, semblait-il, s’était hâté d’en profiter.
  2. On les retrouve au kébab du coin, au bout de l’avenue Jean-Jaurès où une pancarte annonce : « Dernier kébab avant le périph », au Café de la musique du parc de la Villette, au café MK2 du quai de Seine.

This word in other languages

avenue(English)avenida(Español)Avenue(Deutsch)avenida(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aevnue
  • aveneu
  • avennue
  • aveune
  • avneue
  • avvenue
  • vaenue

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of avenue - 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.

aevnue2aveneu2avennue1aveune2avneue2avvenue1vaenue2
Edit distance from "avenue"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "avenue"?
"avenue" is spelled A-V-E-N-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \av.ny\.
What does "avenue" mean?
As a noun, "avenue" means: Voie urbaine d’importance et de taille diverses. Toutefois, en général, une avenue est moins importante qu’un boulevard.
What words are commonly confused with "avenue"?
"avenue" is commonly confused with "aveu", "avoué", "avéré". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "avenue"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "avenue" is \av.ny\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "avenue" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "avenue", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

évêque#3,308Cousin#3,324étoile#3,306expert#3,330

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

conçu7 variantsdrame7 variantsSarah7 variantssable7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list