avilissant
\a.vi.li.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“avilissant” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui avilit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avilissant · avilissant · French
avilissant · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avilissant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.vi.li.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
avilissant is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.vi.li.sɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui avilit.".
avilissant doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented 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 avilissant, spelled A-V-I-L-I-S-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui avilit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how avilissant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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