abundant
a·bun·dant/əˈbʌn.dənt/adjective
abundant is spelled A-B-U-N-D-A-N-T, 3 syllables: a·bun·dant. The wrong spelling people search most is abundunt: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 238 of all searches for the word. Abundant is an adjective meaning “Fully sufficient; found in copious supply; in great quantity; overflowing”.
How many letters and syllables are in abundant?
| Letters | 8: A-B-U-N-D-A-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: a·bun·dant |
| In writing | 5.9 times per million words; the 10,028th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, abundunt, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell abundant?
Abundant is spelled A-B-U-N-D-A-N-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 238 of the searches for abundant in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is abundant?
Abundant appears 5.9 times per million words in written English, the 10,028th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce abundant?
- UK /əˈbʌn.dənt/
- US /əˈbʌn.dənt/
Abundant has 3 syllables, split a·bun·dant in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-abundant.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with abundant?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as abundant from its last stressed vowel (/ʌndənt/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of abundant
- more abundant comparative
- most abundant superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does abundant mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Fully sufficient; found in copious supply; in great quantity; overflowing.
Blackberries are abundant in this part of the country in October, so we always make lots of jam.
- 2
Richly supplied; wealthy; possessing in great quantity.
- 3
Being an abundant number, i.e. less than the sum of all of its divisors except itself.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate abundant?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of abundant: a..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Abundant in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense fully sufficient; plentiful:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | abondant |
| German | reichlich, wohlhabend |
| Portuguese | abundante |
| Spanish | abundante, copioso, cuantioso |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does abundant come from?
First attested about 1380. From Middle English abundaunt, habundaunt, aboundant, from Anglo-Norman abundant, from Old French abondant, from Latin abundāns, present participle of abundō (“to overflow, to abound”). Compare abound.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).