avoyer
French, noun/a.vwa.je/
avoyer is spelled A-V-O-Y-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 32 million words in written French, the 179,956th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Avoyer is a French masculine noun meaning “avoyer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Titre du premier magistrat, dans quelques cantons suisses”.
What does avoyer mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineavoyer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Donner de la voie à une lame de scie, c’est-à-dire élargir son mordant en inclinant ses dents alternativement à gauche et à droite. 2. Muer.
noun: 1. Titre du premier magistrat, dans quelques cantons suisses.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of avoyer
- avoyers plural
- avoir avoyé infinitive past
- en avoyant gerund present
- en ayant avoyé gerund past
- avoyant participle present
- avoyé participle past
- j’avoie indicative present
- tu avoies indicative present
- il/elle/on avoie indicative present
- nous avoyons indicative present
- vous avoyez indicative present
- ils/elles avoient indicative present
- j’ai avoyé indicative past multiword-construction
- tu as avoyé indicative past multiword-construction
- il/elle/on a avoyé indicative past multiword-construction
- nous avons avoyé indicative past multiword-construction
- vous avez avoyé indicative past multiword-construction
- ils/elles ont avoyé indicative past multiword-construction
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce avoyer?
- /a.vwa.je/
- \a.vwa.je\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is avoyer in French?
avoyer appears about once in every 32 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).