abaque
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#93,440
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
abaque is aFrenchnoun. It means: Compteur à boules chinois pour le calcul. Pronounced \a.bak\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abaque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.bak\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #93,440 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for abaque is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.bak\. Corpus data places it at rank #93,440 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for abaque in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 abaque, spelled A-B-A-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Compteur à boules chinois pour le calcul.
- 2Tailloir, partie supérieure d'un chapiteau de colonne sur laquelle porte l’architrave.
- 3Tableau couvert de sable fin, sur lequel on traçait des nombres pour enseigner le calcul ou la géométrie.
- 4Diagramme ou graphique qui donne, par simple lecture, la solution approchée d’un problème numérique.
- 5En logique, tableau servant à tirer les conséquences logiques de prémisses données.
- 6Table de jeu divisée en compartiments et se rapprochant de nos damiers, de nos échiquiers.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #93,440 in French
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