abandon

/\a.bɑ̃.dɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,395

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

abandon is aFrenchnoun. It means: État d’une personne, d’une chose abandonnée. Pronounced \a.bɑ̃.dɔ̃\. It ranks #4,395 in French word frequency. Often confused with abandons and abandonné.

Key facts for abandon
PropertyValue
Headwordabandon
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.bɑ̃.dɔ̃\
Letters7
Frequency rank#4,395
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of abandon in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for abandon is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.bɑ̃.dɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,395 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 15 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for abandon, with forms such as "aabndon", "abadnon", and "abanddon". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "abandons", "abandonné", "abandonna", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is abandon, spelled A-B-A-N-D-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    État d’une personne, d’une chose abandonnée.
  2. 2
    Action d’abandonner, de délaisser.
  3. 3
    Acte de renoncer à une qualité, un emploi ou un poste.
  4. 4
    Fait de renoncer à une cause, une croyance.
  5. 5
    Fait de renoncer à un parti, un engagement.
  6. 6
    Renonciation à la possession, à la jouissance d’une chose.
  7. 7
    Fait de renoncer à une candidature dans une élection ou un concours.
  8. 8
    Don, renonciation à un droit, abandon de famille.
  9. 9
    Acte par lequel un débiteur abandonne tous ses biens à ses créanciers, pour se mettre à l’abri de leurs poursuites.
  10. 10
    Sans contrainte. En toute confiance.
  11. 11
    Confidence.
  12. 12
    En parlant des manières, des discours, des ouvrages d’esprit et des productions des arts, pour exprimer une sorte de facilité, de négligence heureuse qui exclut toute recherche, toute affectation, et ne laisse jamais sentir l’effort, ni le travail.
  13. 13
    Acte par lequel l’acheteur renonce a un marché conclu en consentant à payer la prime.
  14. 14
    Rupture des liens affectifs et matériels qui attachent un individu à son entourage plus ou moins proche.
  15. 15
    Terrain en jachère.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: aabndon,abadnon,abanddon,abandno,abandonn,abanndon,abanodn,abbandon,abnadon,baandon

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for abandon

Misspelling Variants of "abandon"

aabndon7abadnon7abanddon8abandno7abandonn8abanndon8abanodn7abbandon8
Misspelling Variants of "abandon"

Frequency rank: #4,395 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "abandon"?
"abandon" is spelled A-B-A-N-D-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \a.bɑ̃.dɔ̃\.
What does "abandon" mean?
As a noun, "abandon" means: État d’une personne, d’une chose abandonnée.
What words are commonly confused with "abandon"?
"abandon" is commonly confused with "abandons", "abandonné", "abandonna". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "abandon"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "abandon" is \a.bɑ̃.dɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "abandon" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.