d’avant
\da.vɑ̃\
The verdict
“d’avant” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Précédent. L’occurrence qui précède immédiatement celle dont on vient de parler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-d-avant · d’avant · French
d’avant · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" 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 | d’avant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \da.vɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
d’avant is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \da.vɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Précédent. L’occurrence qui précède immédiatement celle dont on vient de parler.".
d’avant doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is d’avant, spelled D-’-A-V-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Précédent. L’occurrence qui précède immédiatement celle dont on vient de parler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how d’avant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En de rares occasions, je me dis que je me suis peut-être fourvoyé. Que ce chemin n’était pas le mien. Mais mon cœur me rappelle aussitôt que rien ne pourrait plus remplacer ce que je vis ici, avec le petit. Rien ne le surpasse, ni ma vie d’avant, ni mon ancienne et lointaine civilisation.
Le jour d’avant, j’avais envoyé un courriel.
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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.