avocate
\a.vɔ.kat\
The verdict
“avocate” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,275. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,275
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Professionnelle du droit, inscrite à un barreau, chargée de défendre, d’assister une partie dans un procès et de plaider devant un tribunal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avocate · avocate · French
avocate · rank #9,275 · 9 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,275
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH averti
Nearest frequency peer: averti (-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 « avocate »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- auteure
auteure
90,729 corpus weight
- avaler
avaler
90,728 corpus weight
- averti
averti
90,727 corpus weight
- avocate
avocate
90,726 corpus weight
- baguette
baguette
90,725 corpus weight
- ballet
ballet
90,724 corpus weight
What this shows « avocate » 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 | avocate |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.vɔ.kat\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,275 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « avocate »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around avocate (IPA \a.vɔ.kat\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,275 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for avocate, with forms such as "aovcate", "avcoate", and "avoacte". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "avorté", "avocats", "avocat", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 avocate, spelled A-V-O-C-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Professionnelle du droit, inscrite à un barreau, chargée de défendre, d’assister une partie dans un procès et de plaider devant un tribunal.
- 2Celle qui intercède pour une autre, qui représente une cause.
- 3Épouse d’un avocat.
- 4Épouse d’un avocat général.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how avocate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
MADAME SORBIN De même qu’au Palais à tenir l’audience, à être Présidente, Conseillère, Intendante, Capitaine ou Avocate. UN HOMME Des femmes avocates ?
N’y en a-t-il pas qui s’intitulent sur leurs cartes de visite : « Maître Gisèle Martin, avocat », et d’autres qui se font adresser leur correspondance au nom de Mademoiselle le Docteur Louise Renaudier ? Le bon sens populaire a jusqu’ici résisté à cette extraordinaire entreprise ; on dit couramment une avocate, une doctoresse, mais il est à craindre que l…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aovcate
- avcoate
- avoacte
- avocaet
- avocatte
- avoccate
- avoctae
- avvocate
- vaocate
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of avocate - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).