abhorre
\a.bɔʁ\
The verdict
“abhorre” is uncommon French (frequency #59,759 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,759
- 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 abhorrer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-abhorre · abhorre · French
abhorre · rank #59,759 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,759
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH abandonnerait
Nearest frequency peer: abandonnerait (-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 « abhorre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- abandonnera…
abandonnerait
40,243 corpus weight
- abhorre
abhorre
40,242 corpus weight
- aboutis
aboutis
40,241 corpus weight
- absoudre
absoudre
40,240 corpus weight
- absous
absous
40,239 corpus weight
- abstractions
abstractions
40,238 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « abhorre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abhorre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.bɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,759 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « abhorre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
abhorre is uncommon French at frequency #59,759 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.bɔʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for abhorre in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is abhorre, spelled A-B-H-O-R-R-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe abhorrer.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe abhorrer.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe abhorrer.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe abhorrer.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe abhorrer.
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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