abandon de poste
\a.bɑ̃.dɔ̃ də pɔst\
The verdict
“abandon de poste” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Fait par un salarié de s’absenter de son lieu de travail sans justification, ni autorisation préalable de son employeur.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abandon de poste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.bɑ̃.dɔ̃ də pɔst\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “abandon de poste” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for abandon de poste is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.bɑ̃.dɔ̃ də pɔst\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Fait par un salarié de s’absenter de son lieu de travail sans justification, ni autorisation préalable de son employeur.".
No misspelling variants are generated for abandon de poste in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 de poste, spelled A-B-A-N-D-O-N- -D-E- -P-O-S-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fait par un salarié de s’absenter de son lieu de travail sans justification, ni autorisation préalable de son employeur.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is A-B-A-N-D-O-N- -D-E- -P-O-S-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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