abies
\a.bjɛs\
The verdict
“abies” is uncommon French (frequency #82,619 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,619
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genre de la famille des Pinacées (Pinaceae) comprenant, non-exclusivement, des espèces vernaculairement appelées sapin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-abies · abies · French
abies · rank #82,619 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,619
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ABN
Nearest frequency peer: ABN (+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 « abies »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- abies
abies
17,382 corpus weight
- ABN
ABN
17,381 corpus weight
- Abobo
Abobo
17,380 corpus weight
- aborderont
aborderont
17,379 corpus weight
- abyssales
abyssales
17,378 corpus weight
- accaparée
accaparée
17,377 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « abies » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abies |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.bjɛs\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #82,619 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « abies » en français
Rare enough to double-check
abies is uncommon French at frequency #82,619 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.bjɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Genre de la famille des Pinacées (Pinaceae) comprenant, non-exclusivement, des espèces vernaculairement appelées sapin.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for abies, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is abies, spelled A-B-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Genre de la famille des Pinacées (Pinaceae) comprenant, non-exclusivement, des espèces vernaculairement appelées sapin.
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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