avocatier
\a.vɔ.ka.tje\
The verdict
“avocatier” 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
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nom usuel de Persea americana, arbre originaire du Mexique, du Guatémala et du Costa Rica, de la famille des lauracées et dont le fruit comestible est l’avocat.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avocatier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.vɔ.ka.tje\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “avocatier” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for avocatier is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.vɔ.ka.tje\. 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: "Nom usuel de Persea americana, arbre originaire du Mexique, du Guatémala et du Costa Rica, de la famille des lauracées et dont le fruit comestible est l’avocat.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for avocatier, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is avocatier, spelled A-V-O-C-A-T-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nom usuel de Persea americana, arbre originaire du Mexique, du Guatémala et du Costa Rica, de la famille des lauracées et dont le fruit comestible est l’avocat.
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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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Using “avocatier”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-V-O-C-A-T-I-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \a.vɔ.ka.tje\ (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.