ouvrage avancé
\u.vʁa.ʒ‿a.vɑ̃.se\
The verdict
“ouvrage avancé” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ouvrage fortifié qui n’est pas contigu au corps de la place forte mais placé à l’avant des fortifications principales et contribuant à la couvrir.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ouvrage avancé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \u.vʁa.ʒ‿a.vɑ̃.se\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ouvrage avancé” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ouvrage avancé is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \u.vʁa.ʒ‿a.vɑ̃.se\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Ouvrage fortifié qui n’est pas contigu au corps de la place forte mais placé à l’avant des fortifications principales et contribuant à la couvrir.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ouvrage avancé, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ouvrage avancé, spelled O-U-V-R-A-G-E- -A-V-A-N-C-É.
Definition
- 1Ouvrage fortifié qui n’est pas contigu au corps de la place forte mais placé à l’avant des fortifications principales et contribuant à la couvrir.
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.
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Using “ouvrage avancé”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is O-U-V-R-A-G-E- -A-V-A-N-C-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \u.vʁa.ʒ‿a.vɑ̃.se\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.