abdique
\ab.dik\
The verdict
“abdique” is uncommon French (frequency #51,841 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,841
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe abdiquer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-abdique · abdique · French
abdique · rank #51,841 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,841
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH abed
Nearest frequency peer: abed (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « abdique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- étreint
étreint
48,164 corpus weight
- évangéliser
évangéliser
48,163 corpus weight
- ôtez
ôtez
48,162 corpus weight
- abdique
abdique
48,160 corpus weight
- abed
abed
48,159 corpus weight
- abuses
abuses
48,155 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « abdique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abdique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ab.dik\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,841 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « abdique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
abdique is uncommon French at frequency #51,841 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ab.dik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
abdique doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is abdique, spelled A-B-D-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe abdiquer.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe abdiquer.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe abdiquer.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe abdiquer.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe abdiquer.
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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