avocat
\a.vɔ.ka\
The verdict
“avocat” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,317. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,317
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Professionnel du droit, inscrit à un barreau, chargé de défendre, d’assister une partie dans un procès et de plaider devant un tribunal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avocat · avocat · French
avocat · rank #1,317 · 8 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,317
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH arrêt
Nearest frequency peer: arrêt (-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 « avocat »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- allemand
allemand
98,687 corpus weight
- appris
appris
98,686 corpus weight
- arrêt
arrêt
98,685 corpus weight
- avocat
avocat
98,684 corpus weight
- bonheur
bonheur
98,683 corpus weight
- budget
budget
98,682 corpus weight
What this shows « avocat » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avocat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.vɔ.ka\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,317 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « avocat »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around avocat (IPA \a.vɔ.ka\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,317 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for avocat, with forms such as "aovcat", "avcoat", and "avoact". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "avoit", "avocats", "avocate", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is avocat, spelled A-V-O-C-A-T.
Definition
- 1Professionnel du droit, inscrit à un barreau, chargé de défendre, d’assister une partie dans un procès et de plaider devant un tribunal.
- 2Celui qui intercède pour un autre, qui la soutient, qui en défend les intérêts auprès de quelqu’un.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how avocat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Euphrasie. Je conçois parfaitement… en votre qualité d’avocat de M. le comte, vous cherchez à m’effrayer… vous voudriez que nous nous privassions nous-mêmes de l’appui d’une personne qui nous est dévouée.
Ils ne connaissent pas plus que moi les candidats qui passent pour représenter leur opinion. S’ils font quelques questions, c’est sur la profession et la situation des candidats ; le mot avocat les met en défiance. Avocat est une injure au village.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aovcat
- avcoat
- avoact
- avocatt
- avoccat
- avocta
- avvocat
- vaocat
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of avocat - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).