avouable
\a.vwabl\
The verdict
“avouable” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que l’on peut avouer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avouable · avouable · French
avouable · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avouable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.vwabl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
avouable is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.vwabl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Que l’on peut avouer.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for avouable, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is avouable, spelled A-V-O-U-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Que l’on peut avouer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how avouable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le long des reliures sombres des livres étagés par centaines, voltigeaient des noms profanes, Parny, Piron, Voltaire, Boccace, Brantôme, et, au centre des ouvrages avouables, s’ouvraient les battants d’un bahut incrusté d’ivoire qui recélait, entre ses rayons doublés de velours pourpre, les ouvrages inavouables.
Thérèse s'efforce d'imaginer le premier regard qu'ils échangeront tout à l'heure ; puis cette nuit, et le lendemain, le jour qui suivra, les semaines, dans cette maison d'Argelouse où ils n'auront plus à construire ensemble une version avouable du drame qu'ils ont vécu.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.