avoine

\a.vwan\

/\a.vwan\/ noun

The verdict

“avoine” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,403. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#18,403
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom usuel de Avena sativa, plante herbacée annuelle, de la famille des Poaceae (Poacées) — anciennement Graminées —, et cultivée pour ses graines comestibles ou comme fourrage.

Corpus desk

Index FR-avoine · avoine · French

avoine · rank #18,403 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #18,403
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH aus

Nearest frequency peer: aus (-2 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 « avoine »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « avoine » 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).

avoine vs avon
67% similar
avoine vs avoir
67% similar
avoine vs avons
67% similar

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

Key facts for avoine
PropertyValue
Headwordavoine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.vwan\
Letters6
Frequency rank#18,403
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « avoine »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).avoinese place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « aus » (#18,401), « Bahamas » (#18,405), « aubin » (#18,400). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « avoine » est au #18,403. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around avoine (IPA \a.vwan\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,403 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for avoine, with forms such as "aovine", "avione", and "avoien". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "avon", "avoir", "avons", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 avoine, spelled A-V-O-I-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom usuel de Avena sativa, plante herbacée annuelle, de la famille des Poaceae (Poacées) — anciennement Graminées —, et cultivée pour ses graines comestibles ou comme fourrage.
  2. 2
    Grain de cette plante.
  3. 3
    Coup, raclée.
  4. 4
    Argent, salaire.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. […] ; puis, ayant longé un champ d’avoine, étoilé de bluets et de coquelicots, nous arrivâmes en un verger où des vaches, à la robe bringelée, dormaient couchées à l’ombre des pommiers.
  2. Les champs d’avoine sont, certaines années, envahis par des plantes nuisibles telles que les chardons, les sanves, moutardes sauvages, ravenelles ; […].

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aovine
  • avione
  • avoien
  • avoinne
  • avonie
  • avvoine
  • vaoine

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of avoine - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

aovine2avione2avoien2avoinne1avonie2avvoine1vaoine2
Edit distance from "avoine"

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 "avoine"?
"avoine" is spelled A-V-O-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.vwan\.
What does "avoine" mean?
As a noun, "avoine" means: Nom usuel de Avena sativa, plante herbacée annuelle, de la famille des Poaceae (Poacées) — anciennement Graminées —, et cultivée pour ses graines comestibles ou comme fourrage.
What words are commonly confused with "avoine"?
"avoine" is commonly confused with "avon", "avoir", "avons". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "avoine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "avoine" is \a.vwan\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "avoine" come from?
"avoine" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

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 (7 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list