avertisse
\a.vɛʁ.tis\
The verdict
“avertisse” is uncommon French (frequency #99,889 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,889
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de avertir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avertisse · avertisse · French
avertisse · rank #99,889 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,889
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH attributaire
Nearest frequency peer: attributaire (-2 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 « avertisse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- attempt
attempt
116 corpus weight
- attirances
attirances
115 corpus weight
- attributaire
attributaire
114 corpus weight
- avertisse
avertisse
112 corpus weight
- axone
axone
110 corpus weight
- ayan
ayan
109 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « avertisse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avertisse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vɛʁ.tis\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #99,889 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « avertisse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
avertisse is uncommon French at frequency #99,889 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.vɛʁ.tis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for avertisse in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is avertisse, spelled A-V-E-R-T-I-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de avertir.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de avertir.
- 3Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait du subjonctif de avertir.
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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