abolition
\a.bɔ.li.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“abolition” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,924. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,924
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’abolir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-abolition · abolition · French
abolition · rank #7,924 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,924
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH abeilles
Nearest frequency peer: abeilles (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « abolition »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- écraser
écraser
92,080 corpus weight
- abeilles
abeilles
92,078 corpus weight
- abolition
abolition
92,077 corpus weight
- accuser
accuser
92,076 corpus weight
- administrat…
administrations
92,075 corpus weight
- admirer
admirer
92,074 corpus weight
What this shows « abolition » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abolition |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.bɔ.li.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #7,924 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « abolition »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around abolition (IPA \a.bɔ.li.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,924 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for abolition, with forms such as "abbolition", "abloition", and "aboiltion". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "absolution", "ablation", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is abolition, spelled A-B-O-L-I-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action d’abolir.
- 2Arrêt, cessation.
- 3Pardon, amnistie que le prince accordait d’autorité absolue pour un crime qui, par les ordonnances, n’était pas rémissible.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how abolition appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Du 2 Frimaire, l'an 2 de la République. Sur la déclaration unanime du jury, portant : 1°. Qu'il n'est pas constant qu'il ait été tenu dans la ville de Brienon-sur-Armançon, département de l'Yonne, lors de la promulgation du décret portant abolition de la royauté, des propos tendant à provoquer l’avilissement de la représentation nationale et le rétablisse…
[…] mais il nous semble qu'au moment où l'on se préoccupe de l'abolition de la peine de mort, une pareille dissertation n'était pas oiseuse.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abbolition
- abloition
- aboiltion
- aboliiton
- abolitino
- abolitionn
- abolitoin
- abolittion
- abollition
- aboltiion
- aoblition
- baolition
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of abolition - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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