Which to use
“avide” and “avides” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #19,213
- “avide” frequency rank
- #25,896
- “avides” frequency rank
- 45109
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | avide | avides |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui désire quelque chose avec beaucoup d’ardeur. | Pluriel de avide. |
Same sound, different letters: avide vs avides
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters.
Homophone desk: avide vs avides
This is the hard kind. avide and avides are pronounced identically (\a.vid\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “avide” sits inside “avides”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 45109, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
avide is recorded at frequency rank #19,213, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.vid\. avides is at rank #25,896, tagged as anadj, pronounced \a.vid\.
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 45109, this pair ranks #205,332 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of avide vs avides
Shared letters: adeiv. Private to "avide": -. Private to "avides": s.
"avide" · 5 letters · shape VCVCV · "avides" · 6 letters · shape VCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "avide" and "avides" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "avide" vs "avides" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "avide" / "avides". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "avide" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "avides" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #205,332 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "avide" and "avides" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "aves vs avides". 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 #205,332 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.