abaissent
\a.bɛs\
The verdict
“abaissent” is uncommon French (frequency #66,459 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,459
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe abaisser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-abaissent · abaissent · French
abaissent · rank #66,459 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,459
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH abondement
Nearest frequency peer: abondement (+1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « abaissent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 3F
3F
33,546 corpus weight
- abaissent
abaissent
33,542 corpus weight
- abondement
abondement
33,541 corpus weight
- abritées
abritées
33,540 corpus weight
- Abruzzes
Abruzzes
33,539 corpus weight
- AccorHotels
AccorHotels
33,538 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « abaissent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abaissent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.bɛs\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,459 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « abaissent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
abaissent is uncommon French at frequency #66,459 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.bɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for abaissent in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is abaissent, spelled A-B-A-I-S-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe abaisser.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe abaisser.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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