avidement
\a.vid.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“avidement” is uncommon French (frequency #72,089 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,089
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une manière avide ; avec avidité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avidement · avidement · French
avidement · rank #72,089 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,089
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aveuglant
Nearest frequency peer: aveuglant (-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 « avidement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- attristés
attristés
27,915 corpus weight
- aveuglant
aveuglant
27,913 corpus weight
- avidement
avidement
27,912 corpus weight
- aviso
aviso
27,911 corpus weight
- axiomatique
axiomatique
27,910 corpus weight
- Bacall
Bacall
27,909 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « avidement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avidement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \a.vid.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #72,089 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « avidement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
avidement is uncommon French at frequency #72,089 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \a.vid.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "D’une manière avide ; avec avidité.".
Zero misspellings are on record for avidement in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is avidement, spelled A-V-I-D-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D’une manière avide ; avec avidité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how avidement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’homme souleva ma tête avec des mouvements doux, me fit boire quelques gorgées d’un breuvage que j’avalai avidement.
On lui mit une boîte de viande entre les mains et il en dévora avidement le contenu, non sans boire à même la bouteille d’ale.
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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