avilissement
\a.vi.lis.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“avilissement” is uncommon French (frequency #90,437 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,437
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’avilir, ou résultat de cette action.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avilissement · avilissement · French
avilissement · rank #90,437 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,437
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH avariés
Nearest frequency peer: avariés (-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 « avilissement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- automotrices
automotrices
9,567 corpus weight
- avantagent
avantagent
9,566 corpus weight
- avariés
avariés
9,565 corpus weight
- avilissement
avilissement
9,564 corpus weight
- avoient
avoient
9,563 corpus weight
- avorton
avorton
9,562 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « avilissement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avilissement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.vi.lis.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #90,437 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « avilissement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
avilissement is uncommon French at frequency #90,437 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.vi.lis.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action d’avilir, ou résultat de cette action.".
Zero misspellings are on record for avilissement in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is avilissement, spelled A-V-I-L-I-S-S-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action d’avilir, ou résultat de cette action.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how avilissement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Du 2 Frimaire, l'an 2 de la République. Sur la déclaration unanime du jury, portant : 1°. Qu'il n'est pas constant qu'il ait été tenu dans la ville de Brienon-sur-Armançon, département de l'Yonne, lors de la promulgation du décret portant abolition de la royauté, des propos tendant à provoquer l’avilissement de la représentation nationale et le rétablisse…
Quoique la prudence maternelle ne leur eût laissé emporter qu’une faible somme, ils se croyaient riches en possédant quelques louis, véritable trésor dans un temps où les assignats étaient arrivés au dernier degré d’avilissement, et où l’or valait beaucoup d’argent.
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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