avion
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,156
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
avion is aFrenchnoun. It means: Aéronef plus lourd que l'air dont la sustentation est assurée par des ailes porteuses et la locomotion par un ou plusieurs moteurs. Pronounced \a.vjɔ̃\. It ranks #1,156 in French word frequency. Often confused with avis and avon.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.vjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,156 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for avion is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.vjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,156 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for avion, with forms such as "aivon", "avino", and "avionn". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "avis", "avon", "avons", and more, 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 avion, spelled A-V-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Aéronef plus lourd que l'air dont la sustentation est assurée par des ailes porteuses et la locomotion par un ou plusieurs moteurs.
- 2Meuble récemment entré dans le corpus héraldique et représentant l’engin du même nom dans les armoiries. Il est généralement représenté sous la forme d'un avion de ligne vu de dessus. Mais différentes formes sont visibles suivant les époques (le biplan est assez présent). Comme il s’agit d'un meuble récent, il n’y a pas vraiment de règles de positionnement ou de couleur. Il est cependant généralement posé en pal, nez vers le chef. Certains auteurs le qualifient de montant. À rapprocher de aéroplane, ballon et montgolfière.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aivon,avino,avionn,avoin,avvion,vaion
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for avion
Misspelling Variants of "avion"
Frequency rank: #1,156 in French
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