avoine
French, noun/a.vwan/
avoine is spelled A-V-O-I-N-E (6 letters) and appears 2.4 times per million words in written French, the 18,424th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Avoine is a French feminine noun meaning “oats” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Nom usuel de Avena sativa, plante herbacée annuelle, de la famille des Poaceae (Poacées) – anciennement…”.
What does avoine mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineoats
- 2
feminineslangpunch (a hit with the fist)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 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. Grain de cette plante. 3. Coup, raclée. 4. Argent, salaire.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of avoine
- avoines plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce avoine?
- /a.vwan/
- \a.vwan\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to avoine
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is avoine in French?
avoine appears 2.4 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).