abjurer
\ab.ʒy.ʁe\
The verdict
“abjurer” is uncommon French (frequency #74,515 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,515
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jurer d’abandonner une religion ou une doctrine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-abjurer · abjurer · French
abjurer · rank #74,515 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,515
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH abatte
Nearest frequency peer: abatte (-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 « abjurer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aai
aai
25,489 corpus weight
- abatte
abatte
25,487 corpus weight
- abjurer
abjurer
25,486 corpus weight
- Aboukir
Aboukir
25,485 corpus weight
- absolutiste
absolutiste
25,484 corpus weight
- abstenue
abstenue
25,483 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « abjurer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abjurer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ab.ʒy.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #74,515 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « abjurer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
abjurer is uncommon French at frequency #74,515 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ab.ʒy.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for abjurer, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is abjurer, spelled A-B-J-U-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Jurer d’abandonner une religion ou une doctrine.
- 2Abandonner ce qu’on faisait profession de croire, d’aimer, de pratiquer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how abjurer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les juifs refusèrent d'abjurer leur Dieu. On les soumit à la flagellation et à maints autres supplices. Mais aucun ne céda.
Bien que ne pratiquant pas à l'époque, mon père ne veut pas abjurer la religion dans laquelle il a été élevé.
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); 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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