about
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,490
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
about is aFrenchnoun. It means: Extrémité par laquelle une pièce de charpente, de menuiserie ou de métal est assemblée avec une autre. Pronounced \a.bu\. It ranks #8,490 in French word frequency. Often confused with abu and aut.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | about |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.bu\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,490 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for about is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.bu\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,490 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for about, with forms such as "abbout", "abotu", and "aboutt". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "abu", "aut", "abus", 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 about, spelled A-B-O-U-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Extrémité par laquelle une pièce de charpente, de menuiserie ou de métal est assemblée avec une autre.
- 2Bout par lequel une tringle ou un tirant de fer se joint, se fixe à quelque chose.
- 3Base du cylindre qui broie les chiffons pour faire le papier.
- 4Mineur spécialisé dans l’entretien et la réparation des puits de mine et des infrastructures attenantes (chevalements, cages...).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abbout,abotu,aboutt,abuot,aobut,baout
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for about
Misspelling Variants of "about"
Frequency rank: #8,490 in French
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Other entries that begin with the letter A in our French index: