aboutement
\a.but.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“aboutement” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Assemblage de plusieurs pièces mises bout à bout avec un ou des éléments de liaison.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aboutement · aboutement · French
aboutement · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aboutement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.but.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « aboutement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
aboutement is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.but.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for aboutement, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 aboutement, spelled A-B-O-U-T-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Assemblage de plusieurs pièces mises bout à bout avec un ou des éléments de liaison.
- 2Mise en relation de deux lignes sans interrompre la connexion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aboutement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les raccords d’aboutement de diagonales sollicitées à la traction doivent être construits pour résister aux efforts de traction à envisager.
En fait par rapport à un transfert, l'aboutement se fait au niveau de la carte vocale, alors que lorsque le serveur vocal transfère l'appel, un aboutement est aussi effectué, mais au niveau de l'autocommutateur.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.