abduction
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#80,823
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
abduction is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action des muscles qui écartent de la ligne médiane du corps les parties auxquelles ils sont attachés. Pronounced \ab.dyk.sjɔ̃\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abduction |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ab.dyk.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #80,823 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for abduction is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ab.dyk.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #80,823 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for abduction in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 abduction, spelled A-B-D-U-C-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action des muscles qui écartent de la ligne médiane du corps les parties auxquelles ils sont attachés.
- 2Action d’inférer les prémisses les plus vraisemblables permettant de parvenir, par déduction, à une conclusion concordante aux observations.
- 3Procédé consistant à introduire une règle à titre d’hypothèse afin de considérer un résultat ou une observation comme un cas particulier tombant sous cette règle.
- 4Forme de raisonnement intuitif qui consiste à supprimer les solutions improbables et qui s’oppose à une logique d’exploration systématique.
- 5Pour les ufologues, enlèvement d’une personne à son insu par des extraterrestres, sans souvenir de la victime après coup.
- 6À l’époque romaine, tactique consistant à dissoudre une troupe en ligne, afin de passer un endroit étroit.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #80,823 in French
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