Avre
\avʁ\
The verdict
“Avre” is uncommon French (frequency #67,305 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,305
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rivière de Normandie, affluent de l’Eure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avre · Avre · French
Avre · rank #67,305 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,305
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH avoisinent
Nearest frequency peer: avoisinent (-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 « Avre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- avenante
avenante
32,699 corpus weight
- avocates
avocates
32,698 corpus weight
- avoisinent
avoisinent
32,697 corpus weight
- Avre
Avre
32,696 corpus weight
- aware
aware
32,695 corpus weight
- Aymen
Aymen
32,694 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Avre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Avre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \avʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #67,305 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Avre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Avre is uncommon French at frequency #67,305 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \avʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Avre, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Avre, spelled A-V-R-E.
Definition
- 1Rivière de Normandie, affluent de l’Eure.
- 2Rivière de Picardie, affluent de la Somme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Avre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Toujours au bord de lAvre, ce matin, un des six cygnons qui sont nés il n’y a pas très longtemps.
Dans la vallée de l’Eure autour de Dreux, Ezy, Bueil et dans la vallée de l’Avre jusqu'à Nonencourt, on cultive le pinot meunier au vin léger à boire rapidement, […].
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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