évitable

\e.vi.tabl\

/\e.vi.tabl\/ adj

The verdict

“évitable” is uncommon French (frequency #51,235 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#51,235
frequency rank, French
1,805
“É” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui peut être évité.

Corpus desk

Index FR-evitable · évitable · French

évitable · rank #51,235 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #51,235
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,805
  • PHOTO-FINISH étymologiquem…

Nearest frequency peer: étymologiquement (-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 « évitable »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « évitable » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for évitable
PropertyValue
Headwordévitable
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\e.vi.tabl\
Letters8
Frequency rank#51,235
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « évitable » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.évitabletombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « étymologiquement » (#51,234), « éviterais » (#51,236), « étriquée » (#51,233). Parmi 1,805 lemmes en « É », « évitable » est au #51,235. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

évitable is uncommon French at frequency #51,235 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \e.vi.tabl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui peut être évité.".

évitable doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is évitable, spelled É-V-I-T-A-B-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui peut être évité.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how évitable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ce malheur était facilement évitable.
  2. 10 mars 44 – Max Jacob est mort. Les journaux gardent le silence sur son arrestation comme sur sa fin, mais marraine a eu de ses nouvelles par une chaîne de personnes interposées et on sait qu’il est mort d’une mort évitable, d’une pneumonie contractée à Drancy où il avait été transféré après son passage à Orléans.

Antonyms

This word in other languages

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "évitable"?
"évitable" is spelled É-V-I-T-A-B-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \e.vi.tabl\.
What does "évitable" mean?
As an adjective, "évitable" means: Qui peut être évité.
How do you pronounce "évitable"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "évitable" is \e.vi.tabl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "évitable" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "évitable", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list