avirons
\a.vi.ʁɔ̃\
The verdict
“avirons” is uncommon French (frequency #68,834 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,834
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de aviron.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avirons · avirons · French
avirons · rank #68,834 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,834
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Azov
Nearest frequency peer: Azov (+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 « avirons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- automnal
automnal
31,170 corpus weight
- avenu
avenu
31,169 corpus weight
- avirons
avirons
31,167 corpus weight
- Azov
Azov
31,166 corpus weight
- babi
babi
31,165 corpus weight
- Babinet
Babinet
31,164 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « avirons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avirons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.vi.ʁɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,834 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « avirons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
avirons is uncommon French at frequency #68,834 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.vi.ʁɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de aviron.".
avirons has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is avirons, spelled A-V-I-R-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de aviron.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how avirons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Effaçant le bedon, il se faufila entre la Prolétaire et la Sainte-Vierge-du-Mont-Carmel – deux barques, bien sûr – et poursuivit son chemin en zigzags parmi les avirons, les piles de voiles, les rouleaux de cordages, les nasses en fil de fer, les têtes de poissons pourries, les tas de coquilles vides, lambis, burgaux, palourdes, huîtres sauvages.
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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