avers
\a.vɛʁ\
The verdict
“avers” is an uncommon French word, ranked #60,559 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #60,559
- frequency rank, French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Côté face d’une pièce de monnaie ou d’une médaille.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.vɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #60,559 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “avers” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for avers is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.vɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #60,559 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for avers, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is avers, spelled A-V-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Côté face d’une pièce de monnaie ou d’une médaille.
- 2Dessus.
- 3Face principale d’un pavillon. Cette face est celle dont le guindant se trouve en début de ligne dans le sens d’écriture du pays considéré. En France, le guindant est donc à gauche, tandis qu’en Arabie Saoudite, il sera à droite.
This word in other languages
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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Using “avers”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-V-E-R-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \a.vɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.