Avesta
\a.vɛs.ta\
The verdict
“Avesta” is uncommon French (frequency #96,636 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,636
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble des textes sacrés de la religion mazdéenne, code sacerdotal des zoroastriens.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avesta · Avesta · French
Avesta · rank #96,636 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,636
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH autosuffisant
Nearest frequency peer: autosuffisant (-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 « Avesta »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- audioguide
audioguide
3,369 corpus weight
- autarcique
autarcique
3,368 corpus weight
- autori
autori
3,367 corpus weight
- autosuffisa…
autosuffisant
3,366 corpus weight
- Avesta
Avesta
3,365 corpus weight
- axones
axones
3,363 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Avesta » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Avesta |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.vɛs.ta\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #96,636 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Avesta » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Avesta is uncommon French at frequency #96,636 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.vɛs.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ensemble des textes sacrés de la religion mazdéenne, code sacerdotal des zoroastriens.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Avesta, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Avesta, spelled A-V-E-S-T-A.
Definition
- 1Ensemble des textes sacrés de la religion mazdéenne, code sacerdotal des zoroastriens.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Avesta appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mon maître, petit-fils du divin Ardéshir, ne se laissera pas prévenir contre moi, il ne peut avoir oublié les sages prescriptions de l’Avesta. N’est-il pas dit dans le Livre que les loups à deux pattes doivent être exterminés bien avant les loups à quatre pattes ?
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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