Avignon

/\a.vi.ɲɔ̃\/ name

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,373

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

Avignon is aFrenchname. It means: Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département du Vaucluse. Pronounced \a.vi.ɲɔ̃\. It ranks #6,373 in French word frequency. Often confused with avion and aviron.

Key facts for Avignon
PropertyValue
HeadwordAvignon
LanguageFrench
Part of speechName
IPA\a.vi.ɲɔ̃\
Letters7
Frequency rank#6,373
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Avignon in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for Avignon is 7 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.vi.ɲɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,373 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for Avignon, with forms such as "aivgnon", "avginon", and "aviggnon". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "avion", "aviron", "Aignan", 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 Avignon, spelled A-V-I-G-N-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département du Vaucluse.
  2. 2
    Ancien nom de la commune française d’Avignon-lès-Saint-Claude.
  3. 3
    Territoire papal dont la cité principale était Avignon.
  4. 4
    Municipalité régionale de comté (MRC) québécoise.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: aivgnon,avginon,aviggnon,avignno,avignnon,avignonn,avigonn,avingon,avvignon,vaignon

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Avignon

Misspelling Variants of "Avignon"

aivgnon7avginon7aviggnon8avignno7avignnon8avignonn8avigonn7avingon7
Misspelling Variants of "Avignon"

Frequency rank: #6,373 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Avignon"?
"Avignon" is spelled A-V-I-G-N-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \a.vi.ɲɔ̃\.
What does "Avignon" mean?
As a name, "Avignon" means: Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département du Vaucluse.
What words are commonly confused with "Avignon"?
"Avignon" is commonly confused with "avion", "aviron", "Aignan". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Avignon"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Avignon" is \a.vi.ɲɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Avignon" come from?
"Avignon" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.