abbesses
\a.bɛs\
The verdict
“abbesses” is uncommon French (frequency #55,706 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,706
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de abbesse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-abbesses · abbesses · French
abbesses · rank #55,706 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,706
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH absolute
Nearest frequency peer: absolute (+2 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « abbesses »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- étreindre
étreindre
44,301 corpus weight
- abbesses
abbesses
44,295 corpus weight
- absolute
absolute
44,293 corpus weight
- Abuja
Abuja
44,292 corpus weight
- Acad
Acad
44,290 corpus weight
- acceptions
acceptions
44,289 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « abbesses » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abbesses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.bɛs\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,706 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « abbesses » en français
Rare enough to double-check
abbesses is uncommon French at frequency #55,706 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.bɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de abbesse.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for abbesses, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is abbesses, spelled A-B-B-E-S-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de abbesse.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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