aboiement
\a.bwa.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“aboiement” is uncommon French (frequency #64,904 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,904
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Son émis par le chien et par d’autres canidés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aboiement · aboiement · French
aboiement · rank #64,904 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,904
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aboutirent
Nearest frequency peer: aboutirent (+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 « aboiement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ôtant
ôtant
35,102 corpus weight
- aboiement
aboiement
35,097 corpus weight
- aboutirent
aboutirent
35,096 corpus weight
- ACOSS
ACOSS
35,095 corpus weight
- acéré
acéré
35,094 corpus weight
- afterwork
afterwork
35,093 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « aboiement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aboiement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.bwa.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #64,904 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « aboiement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
aboiement is uncommon French at frequency #64,904 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.bwa.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for aboiement, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is aboiement, spelled A-B-O-I-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Son émis par le chien et par d’autres canidés.
- 2Bruit ou cri désarticulé ressemblant à un aboiement.
- 3Paroles, discours violents ou haineux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aboiement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À l’époque du frai, il pousse spontanément un petit cri peu harmonieux, qui participe de l’aboiement du roquet et du pépiement du poussin.
La porte ayant été ouverte, les chiens s'échappèrent en jetant de longs aboiements de satisfaction.
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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