assezvsaviezWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: assez is a adverb, aviez is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“assez” is an adverb and “aviez” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#247
“assez” frequency rank
#6,053
“aviez” frequency rank
6300
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature assez aviez
Definition Suffisamment, d'une quantité adéquate, suffisante ou tolérable. Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe avoir.

Where the eye mixes assez and aviez

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence.

5 ch
assez
5 ch
aviez

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: assez is \a.se\ while aviez is \a.vje\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (adverb vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 6300, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

assez is recorded at frequency rank #247, classified as anadv, pronounced \a.se\. aviez is at rank #6,053, tagged as averb, pronounced \a.vje\.

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 6300, this pair ranks #426,619 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of assez vs aviez

Shared letters: aez. Private to "assez": s. Private to "aviez": iv.

"assez" · 5 letters · shape VCCVC  ·  "aviez" · 5 letters · shape VCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • assezasesz · asez · assezz · assze · sasez
  • aviezaivez · aveiz · aviezz · avize · avviez · vaiez

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "assez" and "aviez" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "assez" is an adverb and "aviez" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "assez" or "aviez"?
"assez" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #247 in our French list, against #6,053 for "aviez". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

You've compared "assez" and "aviez". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "assez" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "aviez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #426,619 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "assez" and "aviez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "aves vs aviez". 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

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list