abîment
\a.bim\
The verdict
“abîment” is uncommon French (frequency #74,519 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,519
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe abîmer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-abiment · abîment · French
abîment · rank #74,519 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,519
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH abstenue
Nearest frequency peer: abstenue (-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 « abîment »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Aboukir
Aboukir
25,485 corpus weight
- absolutiste
absolutiste
25,484 corpus weight
- abstenue
abstenue
25,483 corpus weight
- abîment
abîment
25,482 corpus weight
- accouplent
accouplent
25,481 corpus weight
- actors
actors
25,479 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « abîment » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abîment |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.bim\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #74,519 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « abîment » en français
Rare enough to double-check
abîment is uncommon French at frequency #74,519 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.bim\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for abîment in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 abîment, spelled A-B-Î-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe abîmer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe abîmer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how abîment appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Malgré l’état de sécheresse de la montagne l’an passé, le parcours de l’UTMB n’a pas été modifié et 10 000 coureurs passent et abîment ces sentiers », regrette Jean-Marc Peillex.
Les commerçants en gros et leurs garçons, les employés, les gens de la petite banque et de grande probité, les fripons, les âmes damnées, les premiers et les derniers commis, les clercs de l’huissier, de l’avoué, du notaire, enfin les membres agissants, pensants, spéculants de cette petite bourgeoisie qui triture les intérêts de Paris et veille à son grai…
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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