avisé

\a.vi.ze\

/\a.vi.ze\/ adj

The verdict

“avisé” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,349. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#17,349
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui ne fait rien sans bien y penser ; qui sait trouver dans chaque occasion ce qu’il vaut mieux faire.

Corpus desk

Index FR-avise · avisé · French

avisé · rank #17,349 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #17,349
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH aventuriers

Nearest frequency peer: aventuriers (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « avisé »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « avisé » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

avisé vs AVS
0% similar
avisé vs avoué
60% similar
avisé vs avoine
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for avisé
PropertyValue
Headwordavisé
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\a.vi.ze\
Letters5
Frequency rank#17,349
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « avisé »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).avisése place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « aventuriers » (#17,348), « Babylone » (#17,350), « avale » (#17,347). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « avisé » est au #17,349. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around avisé (IPA \a.vi.ze\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #17,349 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui ne fait rien sans bien y penser ; qui sait trouver dans chaque occasion ce qu’il vaut mieux faire.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for avisé, with forms such as "aivsé", "avise", and "avissé". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "AVS", "avoué", "avoine", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is avisé, spelled A-V-I-S-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui ne fait rien sans bien y penser ; qui sait trouver dans chaque occasion ce qu’il vaut mieux faire.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how avisé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les plus jeunes damoiselles, encore nices et peu garnies d'entregent, étaient doucement chapitrées par les jouvenceaux avisés qui leur prêchaient maintes jolies doctrines.
  2. Les grands abbés de ce temps, d’Odilon de Cluny à Didier du Mont-Cassin, étaient assez avisés pour ne pas chercher à « monachiser » le monde qui les entourait.

Antonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aivsé
  • avise
  • avissé
  • aviés
  • avsié
  • avvisé
  • vaisé

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of avisé - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

aivsé2avise1avissé1aviés2avsié2avvisé1vaisé2
Edit distance from "avisé"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "avisé"?
"avisé" is spelled A-V-I-S-É. The IPA pronunciation is \a.vi.ze\.
What does "avisé" mean?
As an adjective, "avisé" means: Qui ne fait rien sans bien y penser ; qui sait trouver dans chaque occasion ce qu’il vaut mieux faire.
What words are commonly confused with "avisé"?
"avisé" is commonly confused with "AVS", "avoué", "avoine". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "avisé"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "avisé" is \a.vi.ze\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "avisé" come from?
"avisé" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "avisé", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list