abjuration
\ab.ʒy.ʁa.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“abjuration” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’abjurer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-abjuration · abjuration · French
abjuration · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abjuration |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ab.ʒy.ʁa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « abjuration » en français
Rare enough to double-check
abjuration is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ab.ʒy.ʁa.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action d’abjurer.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for abjuration, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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. The correct French form is abjuration, spelled A-B-J-U-R-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action d’abjurer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how abjuration appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’abjuration ne discrédite plus : on sait bien qu’elle est forcée. Que pourraient-ils faire d’autre, sinon aller en prison? dictée mot à mot.
Selon la légende, Galilée aurait ponctué son abjuration par : « Et pourtant elle tourne ».
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.