avorton
\a.vɔʁ.tɔ̃\
The verdict
“avorton” is uncommon French (frequency #90,439 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,439
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fœtus sorti avant terme du ventre de la mère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avorton · avorton · French
avorton · rank #90,439 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,439
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH avoient
Nearest frequency peer: avoient (-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 « avorton »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- avariés
avariés
9,565 corpus weight
- avilissement
avilissement
9,564 corpus weight
- avoient
avoient
9,563 corpus weight
- avorton
avorton
9,562 corpus weight
- ayahuasca
ayahuasca
9,561 corpus weight
- Azouz
Azouz
9,560 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « avorton » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avorton |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.vɔʁ.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #90,439 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « avorton » en français
Rare enough to double-check
avorton is uncommon French at frequency #90,439 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.vɔʁ.tɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for avorton in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is avorton, spelled A-V-O-R-T-O-N.
Definition
- 1Fœtus sorti avant terme du ventre de la mère.
- 2Animal qui est fort au-dessous de la grandeur dont naturellement il doit être.
- 3Petit homme mal fait, mal bâti.
- 4Défectueuse production des végétaux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how avorton appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un informe avorton.
Eh ! monsieur, les avortons naissent tous centenaires.
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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