aver
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
- atténuées
atténuées
27,069 corpus weight
- Audierne
Audierne
27,068 corpus weight
- augmenterai…
augmenteraient
27,067 corpus weight
- aver
aver
27,066 corpus weight
- averties
averties
27,065 corpus weight
- Babylonie
Babylonie
27,064 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « aver » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aver |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #72,935 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « aver » en français
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
- 1Variante de avoir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how aver appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).