aborder

/\a.bɔʁ.de\/ verb

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,516

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

15

similar word pairs

aborder is aFrenchverb. It means: Arriver au bord, prendre terre. Pronounced \a.bɔʁ.de\. It ranks #5,516 in French word frequency. Often confused with abords and adorer.

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)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of aborder in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for aborder is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.bɔʁ.de\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,516 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for aborder, with forms such as "abborder", "abodrer", and "abordder". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "abords", "adorer", "aboyer", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is aborder, spelled A-B-O-R-D-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

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.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: abborder,abodrer,abordder,aborderr,abordre,aboredr,aborrder,abroder,aobrder,baorder

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for aborder

Misspelling Variants of "aborder"

abborder8abodrer7abordder8aborderr8abordre7aboredr7aborrder8abroder7
Misspelling Variants of "aborder"

Frequency rank: #5,516 in French

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. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.