avia
\a.vja\
The verdict
“avia” is uncommon French (frequency #69,603 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,603
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de avier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avia · avia · French
avia · rank #69,603 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,603
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH autoroutières
Nearest frequency peer: autoroutières (-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 « avia »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- attentisme
attentisme
30,403 corpus weight
- autoroutièr…
autoroutières
30,399 corpus weight
- avia
avia
30,398 corpus weight
- avionique
avionique
30,397 corpus weight
- azotés
azotés
30,395 corpus weight
- aérodynamis…
aérodynamisme
30,394 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « avia » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avia |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vja\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #69,603 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « avia » en français
Rare enough to double-check
avia is uncommon French at frequency #69,603 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.vja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de avier.".
avia has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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. The correct French form is avia, spelled A-V-I-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de avier.
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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