avocat de la défense
\a.vɔ.kɑ də la de.fɑ̃s\
The verdict
“avocat de la défense” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Avocat représentant l’accusé dans une poursuite pénale.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avocat de la défense |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.vɔ.kɑ də la de.fɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “avocat de la défense” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for avocat de la défense is 20 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.vɔ.kɑ də la de.fɑ̃s\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Avocat représentant l’accusé dans une poursuite pénale.".
Zero misspellings are on record for avocat de la défense in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is avocat de la défense, spelled A-V-O-C-A-T- -D-E- -L-A- -D-É-F-E-N-S-E.
Definition
- 1Avocat représentant l’accusé dans une poursuite pénale.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-V-O-C-A-T- -D-E- -L-A- -D-É-F-E-N-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \a.vɔ.kɑ də la de.fɑ̃s\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.