aveu
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,716
in French word usage
Misspellings
3
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
aveu is aFrenchnoun. It means: Déclaration verbale ou écrite par laquelle on reconnaît avoir fait ou dit quelque chose. Pronounced \a.vø\. Often confused with axe and avi.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aveu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.vø\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #11,716 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for aveu is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.vø\. Corpus data places it at rank #11,716 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 3 documented wrong-spelling variants for aveu, with forms such as "aevu", "avue", and "avveu". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "axe", "avi", "aye", and more, 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 aveu, spelled A-V-E-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Déclaration verbale ou écrite par laquelle on reconnaît avoir fait ou dit quelque chose.
- 2La reconnaissance que fait une partie du droit prétendu par son adversaire.
- 3Témoignage qu’on rend de ce qu’un autre a dit ou fait.
- 4Approbation, consentement, agrément qu’une personne supérieure donne à ce qu’un inférieur a fait ou a dessein de faire.
- 5Acte qu’un vassal était obligé de donner à son seigneur et par lequel il avouait, reconnaissait tenir de lui tel ou tel héritage.
- 6L’acte par lequel un seigneur avouait, reconnaissait quelqu’un pour vassal ou un vassal quelqu’un pour seigneur.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aevu,avue,avveu
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for aveu
Misspelling Variants of "aveu"
Frequency rank: #11,716 in French
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