# abort

> English word · Noun · IPA /əˈbɔːt/ · frequency rank #20,277

## Definitions
1. An early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission.
2. The function used to abort a process.
3. An event in which a process is aborted.
4. The product of a miscarriage; an aborted offspring; an abortion.
5. A miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion.

## Etymology
From Middle English, from Latin abortus, perfect active participle of aborior (“miscarry”), formed from ab + orior (“to come into being”). Doublet of abortus.

## Easily confused with
- **art** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/abort-vs-art)
- **alot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/abort-vs-alot)
- **Amor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/abort-vs-amor)
- **abra** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/abort-vs-abra)
- **about** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/abort-vs-about)
- **above** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/abort-vs-above)
- **apart** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/abort-vs-apart)
- **alert** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/abort-vs-alert)
- **adopt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/abort-vs-adopt)
- **adore** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/abort-vs-adore)
- **arbor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/abort-vs-arbor)
- **avert** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/abort-vs-avert)
- **acorn** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/abort-vs-acorn)
- **aloft** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/abort-vs-aloft)
- **adorn** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/abort-vs-adorn)
- **aorta** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/abort-vs-aorta)
- **afoot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/abort-vs-afoot)
- **agora** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/abort-vs-agora)
- **Arora** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/abort-vs-arora)
- **Albert** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/abort-vs-albert)

## Common misspellings (7)
`abbort`, `aborrt`, `abortt`, `abotr`, `abrot`, `aobrt`, `baort`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/abort