abordage

\a.bɔʁ.daʒ\

/\a.bɔʁ.daʒ\/ noun

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The verdict

“abordage” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,790. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#35,790
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d'aborder ; manœuvre d’un navire pour s’amarrer bord à bord avec un autre afin de le prendre d’assaut.

Corpus desk

Index FR-abordage · abordage · French

abordage · rank #35,790 · 11 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #35,790
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH aberrations

Nearest frequency peer: aberrations (-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 « abordage »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « abordage » 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).

abordage vs aborde
75% similar
abordage vs abordée
75% similar
abordage vs abordant
75% similar

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

Key facts for abordage
PropertyValue
Headwordabordage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.bɔʁ.daʒ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#35,790
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « abordage »

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

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « aberrations » (#35,789), « aboyer » (#35,791), « abréger » (#35,792). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « abordage » est au #35,790. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around abordage (IPA \a.bɔʁ.daʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,790 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for abordage, with forms such as "abbordage", "abodrage", and "aboradge". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "aborde", "abordée", "abordant", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 abordage, spelled A-B-O-R-D-A-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action d'aborder ; manœuvre d’un navire pour s’amarrer bord à bord avec un autre afin de le prendre d’assaut.
  2. 2
    Collision accidentelle entre deux navires.
  3. 3
    Fait d’atteindre la côte, le rivage.
  4. 4
    Rencontre hostile entre deux personnes.
  5. 5
    Approche d’une personne inconnue ou peu familière pour lui adresser la parole.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Défoncé par le choc, le Vaterland se vit à deux doigts de sa perte ; il dégringola impétueusement, emportant avec lui, accroché dans son hélice brisée, l’aéroplane ennemi dont les pilotes tentaient l’abordage.
  2. Je pense, je ne sais pourquoi, à ces combats navals, à ces abordages et arambages désespérés, où les poings et les mâchoires saisissent les plats-bords des navires, où les haches ennemies coupent les poignets, tranchent.

Synonyms

arambage

This word in other languages

boarding(English)abordaje(Español)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • abbordage
  • abodrage
  • aboradge
  • abordaeg
  • abordagge
  • aborddage
  • abordgae
  • aborrdage
  • abrodage
  • aobrdage
  • baordage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of abordage - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

abbordage1abodrage2aboradge2abordaeg2abordagge1aborddage1abordgae2aborrdage1
Edit distance from "abordage"

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 "abordage"?
"abordage" is spelled A-B-O-R-D-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.bɔʁ.daʒ\.
What does "abordage" mean?
As a noun, "abordage" means: Action d'aborder ; manœuvre d’un navire pour s’amarrer bord à bord avec un autre afin de le prendre d’assaut.
What words are commonly confused with "abordage"?
"abordage" is commonly confused with "aborde", "abordée", "abordant". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "abordage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "abordage" is \a.bɔʁ.daʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "abordage" come from?
"abordage" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

accoster#35,793vécurent#35,775visionné#35,773apprises#35,810

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

abréger11 variantsévitons11 variantsvitrées11 variantsassorties11 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list