abandon
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abandon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.bɑ̃.dɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,395 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1État d’une personne, d’une chose abandonnée.
- 2Action d’abandonner, de délaisser.
- 3Acte de renoncer à une qualité, un emploi ou un poste.
- 4Fait de renoncer à une cause, une croyance.
- 5Fait de renoncer à un parti, un engagement.
- 6Renonciation à la possession, à la jouissance d’une chose.
- 7Fait de renoncer à une candidature dans une élection ou un concours.
- 8Don, renonciation à un droit, abandon de famille.
- 9Acte par lequel un débiteur abandonne tous ses biens à ses créanciers, pour se mettre à l’abri de leurs poursuites.
- 10Sans contrainte. En toute confiance.
- 11Confidence.
- 12En 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.
- 13Acte par lequel l’acheteur renonce a un marché conclu en consentant à payer la prime.
- 14Rupture des liens affectifs et matériels qui attachent un individu à son entourage plus ou moins proche.
- 15Terrain 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"
Frequency rank: #4,395 in French
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