Abbeville
\ab.vil\
The verdict
“Abbeville” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,033. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,033
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Somme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-abbeville · Abbeville · French
Abbeville · rank #28,033 · 9 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #28,033
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH abbesse
Nearest frequency peer: abbesse (-1 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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Abbeville »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- étirer
étirer
71,971 corpus weight
- abbesse
abbesse
71,969 corpus weight
- Abbeville
Abbeville
71,968 corpus weight
- Abdelaziz
Abdelaziz
71,967 corpus weight
- Abdoulaye
Abdoulaye
71,966 corpus weight
- abonnez
abonnez
71,965 corpus weight
What this shows « Abbeville » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Abbeville |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ab.vil\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #28,033 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Abbeville »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Abbeville (IPA \ab.vil\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #28,033 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département de la Somme.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Abbeville, with forms such as "abbeivlle", "abbevile", and "abbevilel". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "abeille", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Abbeville, spelled A-B-B-E-V-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Somme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Abbeville appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On voit par le statut ici reproduit que les maréchaux, les férons, les serruriers et les taillandiers formaient, à Abbeville, une seule corporation industrielle et une même confrérie religieuse sous l’'invocation de saint Eloy.
La Barre étoit Parisien, et étoit venu épicuriser à Abbeville.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abbeivlle
- abbevile
- abbevilel
- abbevlile
- abbevville
- abbveille
- abebville
- abeville
- babeville
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Abbeville - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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