Abidjan
/ˌæb.ɪˈd͡ʒɑn/
"abidjan" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Abidjan” is uncommon English (frequency #52,750 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,750
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The de facto capital and largest city of Ivory Coast.
Corpus desk
Index EN-abidjan · Abidjan · English
Abidjan · rank #52,750 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,750
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH ABCs
Nearest frequency peer: ABCs (-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 “Abidjan”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- abattoir
abattoir
47,254 corpus weight
- abbess
abbess
47,253 corpus weight
- ABCs
ABCs
47,252 corpus weight
- Abidjan
Abidjan
47,251 corpus weight
- accede
accede
47,247 corpus weight
- accrual
accrual
47,246 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Abidjan” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Abidjan |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˌæb.ɪˈd͡ʒɑn/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,750 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Abidjan” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Abidjan is uncommon English at frequency #52,750 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˌæb.ɪˈd͡ʒɑn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The de facto capital and largest city of Ivory Coast.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Abidjan in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From the Ebrié expression min-chan m'bidjan (literally “I just cut the leaves”). The correct English form is Abidjan, spelled A-B-I-D-J-A-N.
Definition
- 1The de facto capital and largest city of Ivory Coast.
Etymology
From the Ebrié expression min-chan m'bidjan (literally “I just cut the leaves”).
This word in other languages
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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