abed
\əˈbɛd\
The verdict
“abed” is uncommon French (frequency #51,842 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,842
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Au lit, dans un lit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-abed · abed · French
abed · rank #51,842 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,842
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH abdique
Nearest frequency peer: abdique (-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 « abed »
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 « abed » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abed |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \əˈbɛd\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #51,842 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « abed » en français
Rare enough to double-check
abed is uncommon French at frequency #51,842 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \əˈbɛd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Au lit, dans un lit.".
Zero misspellings are on record for abed in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is abed, spelled A-B-E-D.
Definition
- 1Au lit, dans un lit.
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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