abcès

\ap.sɛ\

/\ap.sɛ\/ noun

The verdict

“abcès” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,675. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#27,675
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poche de pus dans une cavité formée aux dépens des tissus environnants.

Corpus desk

Index FR-abces · abcès · French

abcès · rank #27,675 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #27,675
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH abolie

Nearest frequency peer: abolie (+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 « abcès »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « abcès » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

abcès vs ace
40% similar
abcès vs abe
40% similar
abcès vs aes
40% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for abcès
PropertyValue
Headwordabcès
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ap.sɛ\
Letters5
Frequency rank#27,675
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « abcès »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).abcèsse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « abolie » (#27,676), « évangélisation » (#27,673), « achetait » (#27,677). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « abcès » est au #27,675. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around abcès (IPA \ap.sɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,675 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for abcès, with forms such as "abbcès", "abccès", and "abces". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ace", "abe", "aes", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is abcès, spelled A-B-C-È-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Poche de pus dans une cavité formée aux dépens des tissus environnants.
  2. 2
    Amas d'urine et de matière stercorale
  3. 3
    Endroit où l'on laisse se cristalliser une situation mauvaise pour éviter son extension.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how abcès appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Pour guérir le dernier-né de la Reine, qui souffrait d'un abcès à la gorge et qu’Hadès semblait encore une fois attirer dans ses ténèbres, le médecin Olympos avait jugé qu'il fallait prendre les grands moyens : une incubation, et à Canope.
  2. Les abcès peuvent affecter tous les animaux. Ils se développent généralement sur la peau à la faveur d’une lésion mais ils peuvent être dus à une maladie et se développer sous la peau ou dans les tissus profonds.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • abbcès
  • abccès
  • abces
  • abcsè
  • abcèss
  • abècs
  • acbès
  • bacès

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of abcès - 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.

abbcès1abccès1abces1abcsè2abcèss1abècs2acbès2bacès2
Edit distance from "abcès"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "abcès"?
"abcès" is spelled A-B-C-È-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ap.sɛ\.
What does "abcès" mean?
As a noun, "abcès" means: Poche de pus dans une cavité formée aux dépens des tissus environnants.
What words are commonly confused with "abcès"?
"abcès" is commonly confused with "ace", "abe", "aes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "abcès"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "abcès" is \ap.sɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "abcès" come from?
"abcès" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "abcès", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list