avril
French, noun/a.vʁil/
avril is spelled A-V-R-I-L (5 letters) and appears 151 times per million words in written French, the 542nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Avril is a French masculine noun meaning “April, the fourth month of the Gregorian calendar, having 30 days” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Quatrième mois de l’année dans le calendrier grégorien, il est placé entre mars et mai et il dure 30 jours”.
What does avril mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineApril, the fourth month of the Gregorian calendar, having 30 days
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Quatrième mois de l’année dans le calendrier grégorien, il est placé entre mars et mai et il dure 30 jours. 2. La jeunesse de quelqu’un.
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 avril
- avrils plural
- avr. alternative abbreviation
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce avril?
- /a.vʁil/
- /av.ɾi/
- Quebec /ɑvʁɪl/
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to avril
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is avril in French?
avril appears 151 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).