avilir
\a.vi.liʁ\
The verdict
“avilir” is uncommon French (frequency #95,574 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,574
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendre vil, abject, méprisable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avilir · avilir · French
avilir · rank #95,574 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,574
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH avertira
Nearest frequency peer: avertira (-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 « avilir »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- autocrates
autocrates
4,430 corpus weight
- avertira
avertira
4,428 corpus weight
- avilir
avilir
4,427 corpus weight
- avoisinait
avoisinait
4,426 corpus weight
- Ayako
Ayako
4,425 corpus weight
- ayumi
ayumi
4,424 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « avilir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avilir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vi.liʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #95,574 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « avilir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
avilir is uncommon French at frequency #95,574 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.vi.liʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for avilir, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is avilir, spelled A-V-I-L-I-R.
Definition
- 1Rendre vil, abject, méprisable.
- 2Rendre de vil prix, déprécier.
- 3Devenir vil, abject ou méprisable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how avilir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Abandonnez ce projet de revoir Mlle Chantal, vous vous aviliriez en vain, vous seriez écrasée, piétinée…
— Ne l’avilissez pas trop, dit-elle. Il est peut-être mort en héros.
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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