abcès
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#27,675
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
abcès is aFrenchnoun. It means: Poche de pus dans une cavité formée aux dépens des tissus environnants. Pronounced \ap.sɛ\. Often confused with ace and abe.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abcès |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ap.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #27,675 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for abcès is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ap.sɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #27,675 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for abcès, with forms such as "abbcès", "abccès", and "abces". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ace", "abe", "aes", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 abcès, spelled A-B-C-È-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Poche de pus dans une cavité formée aux dépens des tissus environnants.
- 2Amas d'urine et de matière stercorale
- 3Endroit où l'on laisse se cristalliser une situation mauvaise pour éviter son extension.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abbcès,abccès,abces,abcsè,abcèss,abècs,acbès,bacès
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for abcès
Misspelling Variants of "abcès"
Frequency rank: #27,675 in French
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