aviso
\a.vi.zo\
The verdict
“aviso” is uncommon French (frequency #72,090 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,090
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit navire de guerre chargé de porter des paquets, des ordres, des avis, etc., et d’observer les mouvements de l’ennemi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aviso · aviso · French
aviso · rank #72,090 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,090
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH avidement
Nearest frequency peer: avidement (-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 « aviso »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aveuglant
aveuglant
27,913 corpus weight
- avidement
avidement
27,912 corpus weight
- aviso
aviso
27,911 corpus weight
- axiomatique
axiomatique
27,910 corpus weight
- Bacall
Bacall
27,909 corpus weight
- bactériolog…
bactériologie
27,908 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « aviso » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aviso |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.vi.zo\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #72,090 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « aviso » en français
Rare enough to double-check
aviso is uncommon French at frequency #72,090 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.vi.zo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petit navire de guerre chargé de porter des paquets, des ordres, des avis, etc., et d’observer les mouvements de l’ennemi.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for aviso, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 aviso, spelled A-V-I-S-O.
Definition
- 1Petit navire de guerre chargé de porter des paquets, des ordres, des avis, etc., et d’observer les mouvements de l’ennemi.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aviso appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand je m’éveillai le lendemain, le Valdemar était mouillé dans la baie de Faxa, à quelques encablures de la terre, entre une canonnière danoise et l’aviso français le Dupleix.
Orsenna, aujourd’hui, passait pour ne plus entretenir dans une base ruinée que quelques avisos du caractère le moins agressif, dont l’unique fonction est de faire à la belle saison la police de la pêche sur les bancs d’éponges.
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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