abdomen

/\ab.dɔ.mɛn\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#14,400

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

abdomen is aFrenchnoun. It means: La partie caudale du corps qui suit le thorax, circonscrite en haut par le diaphragme, en bas par le bassin, en arrière par les vertèbres lombaires et en avant par des aponévroses et des muscles. Pronounced \ab.dɔ.mɛn\.

Key facts for abdomen
PropertyValue
Headwordabdomen
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ab.dɔ.mɛn\
Letters7
Frequency rank#14,400
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of abdomen in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for abdomen is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ab.dɔ.mɛn\. Corpus data places it at rank #14,400 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for abdomen, with forms such as "abbdomen", "abddomen", and "abdmoen". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 abdomen, spelled A-B-D-O-M-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    La partie caudale du corps qui suit le thorax, circonscrite en haut par le diaphragme, en bas par le bassin, en arrière par les vertèbres lombaires et en avant par des aponévroses et des muscles.
  2. 2
    Partie inférieure des arthropodes.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: abbdomen,abddomen,abdmoen,abdoemn,abdomenn,abdommen,abdomne,abodmen,adbomen,badomen

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for abdomen

Misspelling Variants of "abdomen"

abbdomen8abddomen8abdmoen7abdoemn7abdomenn8abdommen8abdomne7abodmen7
Misspelling Variants of "abdomen"

Frequency rank: #14,400 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "abdomen"?
"abdomen" is spelled A-B-D-O-M-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ab.dɔ.mɛn\.
What does "abdomen" mean?
As a noun, "abdomen" means: La partie caudale du corps qui suit le thorax, circonscrite en haut par le diaphragme, en bas par le bassin, en arrière par les vertèbres lombaires et en avant par des aponévroses et des muscles.
What are common misspellings of "abdomen"?
Common misspellings include "abbdomen", "abddomen", "abdmoen", "abdoemn", "abdomenn". The correct spelling is "abdomen".
How do you pronounce "abdomen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "abdomen" is \ab.dɔ.mɛn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "abdomen" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.