évitable
\e.vi.tabl\
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
- équatorien
équatorien
48,771 corpus weight
- étal
étal
48,769 corpus weight
- étriquée
étriquée
48,768 corpus weight
- étymologiqu…
étymologiquement
48,767 corpus weight
- évitable
évitable
48,766 corpus weight
- éviterais
éviterais
48,765 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « évitable » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | évitable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.vi.tabl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,235 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « évitable » en français
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
- 1Qui peut être évité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how évitable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce malheur était facilement évitable.
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.
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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.
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