aver

verb

The verdict

“aver” is uncommon French (frequency #72,935 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#72,935
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de avoir.

Corpus desk

Index FR-aver · aver · French

aver · rank #72,935 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #72,935
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH augmenteraient

Nearest frequency peer: augmenteraient (-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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « aver »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « aver » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for aver
PropertyValue
Headwordaver
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
Letters4
Frequency rank#72,935
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « aver » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).avertombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « augmenteraient » (#72,934), « averties » (#72,936), « Audierne » (#72,933). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « aver » est au #72,935. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

aver is uncommon French at frequency #72,935 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de avoir.".

aver doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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. The correct French form is aver, spelled A-V-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Variante de avoir.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Sosfrez mort pur aver vie

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 "aver"?
"aver" is spelled A-V-E-R.
What does "aver" mean?
As a verb, "aver" means: Variante de avoir.
What language does "aver" come from?
"aver" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list