avoir
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#81
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
avoir is aFrenchverb. It means: Être en relation possessive, soit concrète ou abstraite, soit permanente ou occasionnelle, dont le possesseur est le sujet et le possédé est le complément d’objet direct. Pronounced \a.vwaʁ\. It ranks #81 in French word frequency. Often confused with avon and avons.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avoir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #81 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for avoir is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.vwaʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #81 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for avoir, with forms such as "aovir", "avior", and "avoirr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "avon", "avons", "avril", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is avoir, spelled A-V-O-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Être en relation possessive, soit concrète ou abstraite, soit permanente ou occasionnelle, dont le possesseur est le sujet et le possédé est le complément d’objet direct.
- 2Être dans un certain état, anormal.
- 3Se procurer, obtenir quelque chose.
- 4Tromper, berner, leurrer quelqu’un.
- 5Posséder sexuellement une femme.
- 6Introduit une nouvelle information concernant le locuteur sans relation thème-rhème.
- 7Auxiliaire servant à former les temps composés, signifiant le passé, la complétion ou l’expérience.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aovir,avior,avoirr,avori,avvoir,vaoir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for avoir
Misspelling Variants of "avoir"
Frequency rank: #81 in French
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Nearby French words
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