avertir
\a.vɛʁ.tiʁ\
The verdict
“avertir” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,641. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,641
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Informer quelqu’un de quelque chose, prévenir une personne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avertir · avertir · French
avertir · rank #10,641 · 10 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,641
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH avantageux
Nearest frequency peer: avantageux (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « avertir »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- authenticité
authenticité
89,364 corpus weight
- automatiques
automatiques
89,363 corpus weight
- avantageux
avantageux
89,361 corpus weight
- avertir
avertir
89,360 corpus weight
- balader
balader
89,359 corpus weight
- bilingue
bilingue
89,357 corpus weight
What this shows « avertir » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avertir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vɛʁ.tiʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,641 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « avertir »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around avertir (IPA \a.vɛʁ.tiʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #10,641 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for avertir, with forms such as "aevrtir", "averitr", and "averrtir". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "avertis", "avertit", "avorter", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is avertir, spelled A-V-E-R-T-I-R.
Definition
- 1Informer quelqu’un de quelque chose, prévenir une personne.
- 2Exciter un cheval au moyen de quelques aides lorsqu’il se néglige dans son exercice.
- 3Donner un avertissement, symbolisé généralement par un carton jaune, à la suite d'une faute ou d'un comportement déplacé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how avertir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Oui, c’était son devoir de les avertir ; il fallait qu’il le fît, qu’il le fît avec force, qu’il le fît avec éclat, qu’il le clamât en pleine chaire, un beau dimanche, car cela devenait scandaleux à la fin !
Nous sommes là, vous nous entendez ? Nos petits coups répétés dans les murs vous avertissent de notre présence.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aevrtir
- averitr
- averrtir
- avertirr
- avertri
- averttir
- avetrir
- avretir
- avvertir
- vaertir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of avertir - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "avertir", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).