abandonner à son triste sort
\a.bɑ̃.dɔ.ne a sɔ̃ tʁis.tə sɔʁ\
The verdict
“abandonner à son triste sort” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 28
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Laisser quelqu’un ou quelque chose face à ses problèmes, son destin, sans intervenir.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abandonner à son triste sort |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.bɑ̃.dɔ.ne a sɔ̃ tʁis.tə sɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 28 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “abandonner à son triste sort” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for abandonner à son triste sort is 28 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.bɑ̃.dɔ.ne a sɔ̃ tʁis.tə sɔʁ\. 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: "Laisser quelqu’un ou quelque chose face à ses problèmes, son destin, sans intervenir.".
No misspelling variants are generated for abandonner à son triste sort 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 abandonner à son triste sort, spelled A-B-A-N-D-O-N-N-E-R- -À- -S-O-N- -T-R-I-S-T-E- -S-O-R-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Laisser quelqu’un ou quelque chose face à ses problèmes, son destin, sans intervenir.
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- The one correct French spelling is A-B-A-N-D-O-N-N-E-R- -À- -S-O-N- -T-R-I-S-T-E- -S-O-R-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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