abondance

\a.bɔ̃.dɑ̃s\

/\a.bɔ̃.dɑ̃s\/ noun

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The verdict

“abondance” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,773. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#9,773
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grande quantité, quantité dépassant les besoins, pléthore, profusion.

Corpus desk

Index FR-abondance · abondance · French

abondance · rank #9,773 · 13 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #9,773
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH équipée

Nearest frequency peer: équipée (-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 « abondance »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « abondance » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

abondance vs abondant
78% similar
abondance vs abondante
89% similar
abondance vs abondants
78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for abondance
PropertyValue
Headwordabondance
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.bɔ̃.dɑ̃s\
Letters9
Frequency rank#9,773
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « abondance »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.abondancese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « équipée » (#9,772), « abords » (#9,774), « éphémère » (#9,771). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « abondance » est au #9,773. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around abondance (IPA \a.bɔ̃.dɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,773 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for abondance, with forms such as "abbondance", "abnodance", and "abodnance". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "abondant", "abondante", "abondants", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is abondance, spelled A-B-O-N-D-A-N-C-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Grande quantité, quantité dépassant les besoins, pléthore, profusion.
  2. 2
    Conditions de vie où les ressources disponibles dépassent les besoins.
  3. 3
    Facilité d’expression et d’élocution.
  4. 4
    Mélange d’un peu de vin et de beaucoup d’eau, souvent servi autrefois dans les communautés et les internats.
  5. 5
    Contrat qui consiste à remporter de 9 à 12 plis tout seul.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how abondance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. […] et l’on y voit de grands troupeaux de mérinos, remarquables par leur bonne conformation et l’abondance et la finesse de leurs toisons […]
  2. Grâce à la nature du sol (tirs et hamri) et à l’abondance des précipitations, une grande partie de la zone côtière se prête admirablement à l’exploitation agricole.

Synonyms

multitude

Antonyms

absenceraretédénuementdisetteindigencepauvretépénurie

This word in other languages

abundance(English)abundancia(Español)Fülle(Deutsch)abundância(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • abbondance
  • abnodance
  • abodnance
  • abonadnce
  • abondacne
  • abondancce
  • abondanec
  • abondannce
  • abonddance
  • abondnace
  • abonndance
  • aobndance
  • baondance

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of abondance - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

abbondance1abnodance2abodnance2abonadnce2abondacne2abondancce1abondanec2abondannce1
Edit distance from "abondance"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "abondance"?
"abondance" is spelled A-B-O-N-D-A-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.bɔ̃.dɑ̃s\.
What does "abondance" mean?
As a noun, "abondance" means: Grande quantité, quantité dépassant les besoins, pléthore, profusion.
What words are commonly confused with "abondance"?
"abondance" is commonly confused with "abondant", "abondante", "abondants". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "abondance"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "abondance" is \a.bɔ̃.dɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "abondance" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "abondance", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

affirmant#9,777vachement#9,761attribuée#9,786cavaliers#9,793

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

égyptien13 variantsassemblage13 variantsautoroutes13 variantstentation13 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list