avertissement

/\a.vɛʁ.tis.mɑ̃\/ noun

Letters

13 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,372

in French word usage

Misspellings

18

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

avertissement is aFrenchnoun. It means: Avis qu’on donne à quelqu’un de quelque chose, afin qu’il y prenne garde. Pronounced \a.vɛʁ.tis.mɑ̃\. It ranks #6,372 in French word frequency. Often confused with avertissements and amortissement.

Key facts for avertissement
PropertyValue
Headwordavertissement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.vɛʁ.tis.mɑ̃\
Letters13
Frequency rank#6,372
Misspellings tracked18
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of avertissement in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for avertissement is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.vɛʁ.tis.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,372 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 18 documented wrong-spelling variants for avertissement, with forms such as "aevrtissement", "averitssement", and "averrtissement". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "avertissements", "amortissement", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is avertissement, spelled A-V-E-R-T-I-S-S-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Avis qu’on donne à quelqu’un de quelque chose, afin qu’il y prenne garde.
  2. 2
    Titre d’une espèce de petite préface mise à la tête d’un livre.
  3. 3
    Réprimande pour faute de gestion ou insubordination adressée à un fonctionnaire ou à un élève.
  4. 4
    Avis que les percepteurs de l’impôt adressent aux contribuables pour que ceux-ci aient à payer le montant de leurs contributions.
  5. 5
    Avis à comparaître devant le juge de paix.
  6. 6
    Admonestation adressée par un arbitre à un pratiquant enfreignant les règles, qui entraîne une sanction ferme en cas de récidive et peut, selon les disciplines, être assortie d’une sanction légère immédiate.
  7. 7
    Communication publiée par une société cotée, en l’absence d’évènement marquant, afin d’informer le marché que les perspectives de résultats doivent être modifiées.
  8. 8
    Signal commandant au conducteur d’être en mesure de s’arrêter au signal suivant.
  9. 9
    Avertissement au public.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: aevrtissement,averitssement,averrtissement,avertisement,avertisesment,avertisseemnt,avertissemennt,avertissementt,avertissemetn,avertissemment,avertissemnet,avertissmeent,avertsisement,averttissement,avetrissement,avretissement,avvertissement,vaertissement

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for avertissement

Misspelling Variants of "avertissement"

aevrtissement13averitssement13averrtissement14avertisement12avertisesment13avertisseemnt13avertissemennt14avertissementt14
Misspelling Variants of "avertissement"

Frequency rank: #6,372 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "avertissement"?
"avertissement" is spelled A-V-E-R-T-I-S-S-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \a.vɛʁ.tis.mɑ̃\.
What does "avertissement" mean?
As a noun, "avertissement" means: Avis qu’on donne à quelqu’un de quelque chose, afin qu’il y prenne garde.
What words are commonly confused with "avertissement"?
"avertissement" is commonly confused with "avertissements", "amortissement". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "avertissement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "avertissement" is \a.vɛʁ.tis.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "avertissement" come from?
"avertissement" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.