avertissement
\a.vɛʁ.tis.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“avertissement” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #6,372 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #6,372
- frequency rank, French
- 13
- letters
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Avis qu’on donne à quelqu’un de quelque chose, afin qu’il y prenne garde.
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 | avertissement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.vɛʁ.tis.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #6,372 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “avertissement” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for avertissement is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for avertissement, with forms such as "aevrtissement", "averitssement", and "averrtissement". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "avertissements", "amortissement", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is avertissement, spelled A-V-E-R-T-I-S-S-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Avis qu’on donne à quelqu’un de quelque chose, afin qu’il y prenne garde.
- 2Titre d’une espèce de petite préface mise à la tête d’un livre.
- 3Réprimande pour faute de gestion ou insubordination adressée à un fonctionnaire ou à un élève.
- 4Avis que les percepteurs de l’impôt adressent aux contribuables pour que ceux-ci aient à payer le montant de leurs contributions.
- 5Avis à comparaître devant le juge de paix.
- 6Admonestation 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.
- 7Communication publiée par une société cotée, en l’absence d’évènement marquant, afin d’informer le marché que les perspectives de résultats doivent être modifiées.
- 8Signal commandant au conducteur d’être en mesure de s’arrêter au signal suivant.
- 9Avertissement au public.
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
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of avertissement - 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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Using “avertissement”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-V-E-R-T-I-S-S-E-M-E-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \a.vɛʁ.tis.mɑ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “avertissements” - see the side-by-side comparison. avertissement vs avertissements
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.