amarvsavareTell them apart

Quick tell: amar is a verb, avare is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“amar” is a verb and “avare” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#28,048
“amar” frequency rank
#23,458
“avare” frequency rank
51506
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature amar avare
Definition Aimer. Qui a un désir excessif d’accumuler.

Letter map: amar vs avare

Shared letters muted; letters that set amar and avare apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

4 ch
amar
5 ch
avare

Part-of-speech tell for amar / avare

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: amar is averb and avareanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 51506, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

amar is recorded at frequency rank #28,048, classified as averb. avare is at rank #23,458, tagged as anadj, pronounced \a.vaʁ\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 51506, this pair ranks #154,503 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of amar vs avare

Shared letters: ar. Private to "amar": m. Private to "avare": ev.

"amar" · 4 letters · shape VCVC  ·  "avare" · 5 letters · shape VCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • amaraamr · amarr · ammar
  • avareaavre · avaer · avarre · avrae · avvare · vaare

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "amar" and "avare" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "amar" is a verb and "avare" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "amar" or "avare" show up more?
"avare" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #23,458 in our French list, against #28,048 for "amar". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "amar" and "avare". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "amar" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "avare" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #154,503 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "amar" and "avare" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "amar vs aur". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #154,503 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list