avoisiner
\a.vwa.zi.ne\
The verdict
“avoisiner” is uncommon French (frequency #88,345 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,345
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Être proche de …, être voisin de …, en parlant des choses.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avoisiner · avoisiner · French
avoisiner · rank #88,345 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,345
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH avisant
Nearest frequency peer: avisant (-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 « avoisiner »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aveline
aveline
11,659 corpus weight
- avisant
avisant
11,657 corpus weight
- avoisiner
avoisiner
11,656 corpus weight
- awakening
awakening
11,655 corpus weight
- axiaux
axiaux
11,654 corpus weight
- Aylin
Aylin
11,653 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « avoisiner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avoisiner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vwa.zi.ne\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #88,345 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « avoisiner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
avoisiner is uncommon French at frequency #88,345 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.vwa.zi.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Être proche de …, être voisin de …, en parlant des choses.".
avoisiner has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is avoisiner, spelled A-V-O-I-S-I-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Être proche de …, être voisin de …, en parlant des choses.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how avoisiner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…], le plateau avoisinant Rockall fut considéré comme une roche spéciale, éruptive, intrusive dans la roche stratifiée.
Leur premier verre absorbé, une fille aux jambes aussi longues qu'une minute de coiffeur, vint se positionner langoureusement sur le tabouret avoisinant son collègue.
This word in other languages
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.
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