avers
\a.vɛʁ\
The verdict
“avers” is uncommon French (frequency #60,559 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,559
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Côté face d’une pièce de monnaie ou d’une médaille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avers · avers · French
avers · rank #60,559 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,559
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ausi
Nearest frequency peer: ausi (-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 « avers »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Aubameyang
Aubameyang
39,446 corpus weight
- auriculaires
auriculaires
39,444 corpus weight
- ausi
ausi
39,443 corpus weight
- avers
avers
39,442 corpus weight
- axer
axer
39,440 corpus weight
- Aïssa
Aïssa
39,438 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « avers » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « avers » en français
Rare enough to double-check
avers is uncommon French at frequency #60,559 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.vɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how avers appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si l'on ne se définit qu'en s'opposant, j'étais l'indéfini en chair et en os ; si l'amour et la haine sont l'avers et le revers de la même médaille, je n'aimais rien ni personne.
Le revers de la médaille - à supposer qu’il y ait un avers - c’est que Flair Hickory allait avoir plus de temps pour préparer la contre-offensive.
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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