abaissez
\a.bɛ.se\
The verdict
“abaissez” is uncommon French (frequency #86,368 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,368
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe abaisser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-abaissez · abaissez · French
abaissez · rank #86,368 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,368
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH abadi
Nearest frequency peer: abadi (-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 « abaissez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- abadi
abadi
13,634 corpus weight
- abaissez
abaissez
13,633 corpus weight
- abandonnaie…
abandonnaient
13,632 corpus weight
- abbado
abbado
13,631 corpus weight
- absides
absides
13,630 corpus weight
- accessoiris…
accessoiriste
13,628 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « abaissez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abaissez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.bɛ.se\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,368 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « abaissez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
abaissez is uncommon French at frequency #86,368 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.bɛ.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for abaissez, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is abaissez, spelled A-B-A-I-S-S-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe abaisser.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif 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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