abc
\a.be.se\
The verdict
“abc” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,186) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,186
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit livret contenant l’alphabet et la combinaison des lettres pour enseigner à lire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-abc · abc · French
abc · rank #14,186 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,186
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH abstrait
Nearest frequency peer: abstrait (+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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « abc »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- émouvant
émouvant
85,818 corpus weight
- équations
équations
85,817 corpus weight
- abc
abc
85,815 corpus weight
- abstrait
abstrait
85,814 corpus weight
- accompagnant
accompagnant
85,813 corpus weight
- ace
ace
85,812 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « abc » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | abc |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.be.se\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #14,186 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « abc »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for abc is neighbouring look-alikes ("au", "As", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \a.be.se\. Frequency #14,186 among 6,727 “A” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for abc, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "au", "As", "an", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is abc, spelled A-B-C.
Definition
- 1Petit livret contenant l’alphabet et la combinaison des lettres pour enseigner à lire.
- 2Principes élémentaires, commencement d’un art, d’une science.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how abc appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’ai acheté un abc pour mon enfant.
Ils montrèrent pour ces acquisitions strictement nécessaires, qui étaient l’a b c du métier, d’excellentes dispositions et, un an à peine après leurs premiers contacts avec les études de motivation, on leur confia la lourde responsabilité d’une « analyse de contenu » : c’était immédiatement au-dessous de la direction générale d’une étude, obligatoirement…
This word in other languages
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).