Which to use
“avoit” and “avouait” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #39,168
- “avoit” frequency rank
- #40,616
- “avouait” frequency rank
- 79784
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | avoit | avouait |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Ancienne forme d’avait, troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait du verbe avoir. | Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe avouer. |
Same sound, different letters: avoit vs avouait
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - avoit and avouait
This is the hard kind. avoit and avouait are pronounced identically (\a.vwɛ\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 79784, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
avoit is recorded at frequency rank #39,168, classified as averb, pronounced \a.vwɛ\. avouait is at rank #40,616, tagged as averb, pronounced \a.vwɛ\.
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 79784, this pair ranks #22,512 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of avoit vs avouait
Shared letters: aiotv. Private to "avoit": -. Private to "avouait": u.
"avoit" · 5 letters · shape VCVVC · "avouait" · 7 letters · shape VCVVVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "avoit" and "avouait" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "avoit" vs "avouait" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "avoit" / "avouait". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "avoit" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "avouait" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #22,512 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "avoit" and "avouait" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Alost vs avoit". 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 #22,512 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.