abdication
French, noun/ab.di.ka.sjɔ̃/
abdication is spelled A-B-D-I-C-A-T-I-O-N (10 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written French, the 26,653rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Abdication is a French feminine noun meaning “abdication” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de renoncer à une charge importante”.
What does abdication mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineabdication
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de renoncer à une charge importante. 2. Renoncement à ses valeurs, à sa personnalité, à son amour-propre. 3. Acte par lequel un père privait son fils des droits que celui-ci avait, à ce titre, dans sa succession.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of abdication
- abdications plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce abdication?
- /ab.di.ka.sjɔ̃/
- \ab.di.ka.sjɔ̃\
- [ab.di.ka.sjɔ̃]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to abdication
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is abdication in French?
abdication appears 1.3 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).