avocats

\a.vɔ.ka\

/\a.vɔ.ka\/ noun

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The verdict

“avocats” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,737. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#3,737
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de avocat (en parlant du métier).

Corpus desk

Index FR-avocats · avocats · French

avocats · rank #3,737 · 10 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,737
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH attendais

Nearest frequency peer: attendais (-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 « avocats »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « avocats » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

avocats vs avocat
86% similar
avocats vs avocate
86% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for avocats
PropertyValue
Headwordavocats
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.vɔ.ka\
Letters7
Frequency rank#3,737
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « avocats »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.avocatsse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « attendais » (#3,736), « bouge » (#3,738), « arrivés » (#3,735). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « avocats » est au #3,737. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around avocats (IPA \a.vɔ.ka\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,737 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de avocat (en parlant du métier).".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for avocats, with forms such as "aovcats", "avcoats", and "avoacts". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "avocat", "avocate", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 avocats, spelled A-V-O-C-A-T-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de avocat (en parlant du métier).

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how avocats appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les avocats d’Ottawa ont convaincu la juge de la Cour fédérale qu’ils devaient « rafraîchir » les documents utilisés en preuve, c’est-à-dire décaviarder certains passages qui n’ont plus besoin d’être secrets.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aovcats
  • avcoats
  • avoacts
  • avocast
  • avocatss
  • avocatts
  • avoccats
  • avoctas
  • avvocats
  • vaocats

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of avocats - 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.

aovcats2avcoats2avoacts2avocast2avocatss1avocatts1avoccats1avoctas2
Edit distance from "avocats"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "avocats"?
"avocats" is spelled A-V-O-C-A-T-S. The IPA pronunciation is \a.vɔ.ka\.
What does "avocats" mean?
As a noun, "avocats" means: Pluriel de avocat (en parlant du métier).
What words are commonly confused with "avocats"?
"avocats" is commonly confused with "avocat", "avocate". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "avocats"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "avocats" is \a.vɔ.ka\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "avocats" come from?
"avocats" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "avocats", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

arrivés#3,735chargée#3,739choisis#3,741croyais#3,747

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

collègue10 variantsdommages10 variantsdéfend10 variantsdésert10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list