abducts
/æbˈdʌkts/
"abducts" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“abducts” is uncommon English (frequency #89,065 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,065
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - third-person singular simple present indicative of abduct
Corpus desk
Index EN-abducts · abducts · English
abducts · rank #89,065 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,065
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH abductees
Nearest frequency peer: abductees (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “abducts”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- AAVE
AAVE
10,939 corpus weight
- abdicating
abdicating
10,938 corpus weight
- abductees
abductees
10,937 corpus weight
- abducts
abducts
10,936 corpus weight
- abend
abend
10,935 corpus weight
- absentminde…
absentmindedly
10,933 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “abducts” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abducts |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /æbˈdʌkts/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #89,065 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “abducts” in English
Rare enough to double-check
abducts is uncommon English at frequency #89,065 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /æbˈdʌkts/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "third-person singular simple present indicative of abduct".
abducts doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is abducts, spelled A-B-D-U-C-T-S.
Definition
- 1third-person singular simple present indicative of abduct
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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