avoisinent

\a.vwa.zin\

/\a.vwa.zin\/ verb

The verdict

“avoisinent” is uncommon French (frequency #67,304 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#67,304
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe avoisiner.

Corpus desk

Index FR-avoisinent · avoisinent · French

avoisinent · rank #67,304 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #67,304
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH avocates

Nearest frequency peer: avocates (-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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « avoisinent »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « avoisinent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for avoisinent
PropertyValue
Headwordavoisinent
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.vwa.zin\
Letters10
Frequency rank#67,304
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « avoisinent » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.avoisinenttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « avocates » (#67,303), « Avre » (#67,305), « avenante » (#67,302). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « avoisinent » est au #67,304. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

avoisinent is uncommon French at frequency #67,304 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.vwa.zin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Zero misspellings are on record for avoisinent in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is avoisinent, spelled A-V-O-I-S-I-N-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe avoisiner.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe avoisiner.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Des vidéos, comme celles consacrées à l’amanite vireuse, à l’amanite tue-mouche ou au polypore du bouleau avoisinent le million de vues.

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 "avoisinent"?
"avoisinent" is spelled A-V-O-I-S-I-N-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \a.vwa.zin\.
What does "avoisinent" mean?
As a verb, "avoisinent" means: Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe avoisiner.
How do you pronounce "avoisinent"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "avoisinent" is \a.vwa.zin\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "avoisinent" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list