aboutir

\a.bu.tiʁ\

/\a.bu.tiʁ\/ verb

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The verdict

“aboutir” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,777. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#7,777
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
11
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Toucher par un bout.

Corpus desk

Index FR-aboutir · aboutir · French

aboutir · rank #7,777 · 9 variants · 11 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #7,777
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH éternité

Nearest frequency peer: éternité (-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 « aboutir »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « aboutir » 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).

aboutir vs abruti
71% similar
aboutir vs ajouter
71% similar
aboutir vs aboutit
86% similar

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

Key facts for aboutir
PropertyValue
Headwordaboutir
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.bu.tiʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#7,777
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « aboutir »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.aboutirse 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 « éternité » (#7,776), « accélérer » (#7,778), « étendu » (#7,775). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « aboutir » est au #7,777. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around aboutir (IPA \a.bu.tiʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #7,777 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for aboutir, with forms such as "abboutir", "abotuir", and "abouitr". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "abruti", "ajouter", "aboutit", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is aboutir, spelled A-B-O-U-T-I-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Toucher par un bout.
  2. 2
    Arriver au bout.
  3. 3
    Avoir pour résultat, en parlant d'une affaire, d’un raisonnement, d’une entreprise.
  4. 4
    Avoir un résultat, réussir.
  5. 5
    Crever, en parlant d’un abcès.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Art. CCLXI - Les propriétaires ou fermiers des héritages assis sur le chemin herdal sont tenus de les fermer depuis le dix Mars lorsqu'ils aboutissent sur des prés, & depuis le quinze Avril au regard des autres héritages jusqu'à la récolte , […].
  2. Ces groupes étaient surtout nombreux aux extrémités de la rue, qui, de part et d'autre, aboutissait à la grande route, […].

Synonyms

finirse terminer

This word in other languages

abut(English)resultar(Español)resultieren(Deutsch)terminar(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • abboutir
  • abotuir
  • abouitr
  • aboutirr
  • aboutri
  • abouttir
  • abuotir
  • aobutir
  • baoutir

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of aboutir - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

abboutir1abotuir2abouitr2aboutirr1aboutri2abouttir1abuotir2aobutir2
Edit distance from "aboutir"

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 "aboutir"?
"aboutir" is spelled A-B-O-U-T-I-R. The IPA pronunciation is \a.bu.tiʁ\.
What does "aboutir" mean?
As a verb, "aboutir" means: Toucher par un bout.
What words are commonly confused with "aboutir"?
"aboutir" is commonly confused with "abruti", "ajouter", "aboutit". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "aboutir"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "aboutir" is \a.bu.tiʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "aboutir" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

acquise#7,779écrites#7,773éclater#7,772voleurs#7,771

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

étendu9 variantsadresses9 variantsAlfred9 variantsvitesses9 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list