aborder

\a.bɔʁ.de\

/\a.bɔʁ.de\/ verb

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The verdict

“aborder” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,516. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#5,516
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
15
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arriver au bord, prendre terre.

Corpus desk

Index FR-aborder · aborder · French

aborder · rank #5,516 · 10 variants · 15 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #5,516
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH étendre

Nearest frequency peer: étendre (-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 « aborder »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « aborder » 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).

aborder vs abords
71% similar
aborder vs adorer
71% similar
aborder vs aboyer
71% similar

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

Key facts for aborder
PropertyValue
Headwordaborder
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.bɔʁ.de\
Letters7
Frequency rank#5,516
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs15
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « aborder »

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

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « étendre » (#5,515), « accueilli » (#5,517), « énergies » (#5,514). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « aborder » est au #5,516. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around aborder (IPA \a.bɔʁ.de\), averb. Corpus frequency is #5,516 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 12 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for aborder, with forms such as "abborder", "abodrer", and "abordder". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "abords", "adorer", "aboyer", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is aborder, spelled A-B-O-R-D-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Arriver au bord, prendre terre.
  2. 2
    Atteindre, en parlant d’une côte.
  3. 3
    Accéder à, en parlant d’un lieu.
  4. 4
    Accéder à, en parlant d’un lieu.
  5. 5
    S’approcher de.
  6. 6
    Commencer à faire face à, à s'occuper de, en parlant notamment d’une situation, d’un problème et de la façon de l’approcher.
  7. 7
    Commencer à parler de, à discuter de, en parlant d’un sujet.
  8. 8
    Diriger une embarcation de manière qu’elle arrive à toucher un bâtiment sans le heurter.
  9. 9
    Toucher en s’approchant par le côté, en parlant d’un navire.
  10. 10
    Toucher pour y monter par force et combattre, en parlant d’un navire.
  11. 11
    Entrer en collision avec (un navire).
  12. 12
    Accoster quelqu’un pour lui parler.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. À Ténériffe, le brick aborda pour se ravitailler et réparer son gouvernail.
  2. Christophe Colomb, on le sait, lorsqu’il aborda en Amérique, crut avoir atteint les Indes par une nouvelle route maritime et nomma en conséquence « Indiens » les premiers habitants qu’il rencontra.

Synonyms

accosterheurter

This word in other languages

land(English)abordar(Español)anlegen(Deutsch)abalroar(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • abborder
  • abodrer
  • abordder
  • aborderr
  • abordre
  • aboredr
  • aborrder
  • abroder
  • aobrder
  • baorder

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of aborder - 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.

abborder1abodrer2abordder1aborderr1abordre2aboredr2aborrder1abroder2
Edit distance from "aborder"

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 "aborder"?
"aborder" is spelled A-B-O-R-D-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \a.bɔʁ.de\.
What does "aborder" mean?
As a verb, "aborder" means: Arriver au bord, prendre terre.
What words are commonly confused with "aborder"?
"aborder" is commonly confused with "abords", "adorer", "aboyer". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "aborder"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "aborder" is \a.bɔʁ.de\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "aborder" come from?
"aborder" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

étendre#5,515trophée#5,512suisses#5,503salarié#5,501

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list