avide
\a.vid\
The verdict
“avide” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,213. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,213
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui désire quelque chose avec beaucoup d’ardeur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avide · avide · French
avide · rank #19,213 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,213
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aurélien
Nearest frequency peer: aurélien (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « avide »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Astrid
Astrid
80,790 corpus weight
- aurélien
aurélien
80,789 corpus weight
- avide
avide
80,788 corpus weight
- balise
balise
80,787 corpus weight
- bavarois
bavarois
80,786 corpus weight
- Benfica
Benfica
80,785 corpus weight
What this shows « avide » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | avide |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.vid\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #19,213 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « avide »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around avide (IPA \a.vid\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #19,213 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for avide, with forms such as "aivde", "avdie", and "avidde". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "avis", "avion", "aviez", and more, 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 easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is avide, spelled A-V-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1Qui désire quelque chose avec beaucoup d’ardeur.
- 2En parlant de choses, avec le même sens.
- 3Qui a une attention passionnée.
- 4Qui a un grand désir de manger.
- 5Intéressé, cupide.
- 6Se dit d’un regex qui englobe ses bornes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how avide appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Très bornée dans ses dépenses, elle ne pouvait se procurer les plaisirs dont elle était avide, ni consentir à s’en priver.
Tu n'en fis pas assez, reine de sang avide ; Il fallait joindre encor l’inceste au parricide !
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aivde
- avdie
- avidde
- avied
- avvide
- vaide
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of avide - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "avide", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).