aver

verb

The verdict

“aver” is uncommon French (frequency #72,935 among 424,905 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#72,935
frequency rank, French
424,905
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Variante de avoir.

Key facts for aver
PropertyValue
Headwordaver
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
Letters4
Frequency rank#72,935
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “aver” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). aver lands here:

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

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

aver is uncommon French at frequency #72,935 among 424,905 “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.

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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Using “aver”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is A-V-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words

Other uncommon French words near this rank

Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list