abdo
/ˈæbdəʊ/
"abdo" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“abdo” is uncommon English (frequency #81,073 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,073
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abdomen.
Corpus desk
Index EN-abdo · abdo · English
abdo · rank #81,073 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,073
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH abattoirs
Nearest frequency peer: abattoirs (-1 rank slots)
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Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “abdo”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- abattoirs
abattoirs
18,929 corpus weight
- abdo
abdo
18,928 corpus weight
- abstruse
abstruse
18,925 corpus weight
- Acland
Acland
18,924 corpus weight
- Adaline
Adaline
18,923 corpus weight
- adenoma
adenoma
18,922 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “abdo” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abdo |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈæbdəʊ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #81,073 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “abdo” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
abdo is uncommon English at frequency #81,073 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈæbdəʊ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Abdomen.".
No misspelling variants are generated for abdo in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Clipping of abdomen or abdominal. The correct English form is abdo, spelled A-B-D-O.
Definition
- 1Abdomen.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how abdo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
CT chest abdo pelvis
Etymology
Clipping of abdomen or abdominal.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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