aboyer
\a.bwa.je\
The verdict
“aboyer” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,791. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,791
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire entendre son cri, en parlant d’un chien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aboyer · aboyer · French
aboyer · rank #35,791 · 8 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,791
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH abordage
Nearest frequency peer: abordage (-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 « aboyer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- aberrations
aberrations
64,212 corpus weight
- abordage
abordage
64,211 corpus weight
- aboyer
aboyer
64,210 corpus weight
- abréger
abréger
64,209 corpus weight
- accoster
accoster
64,208 corpus weight
- accrochées
accrochées
64,207 corpus weight
What this shows « aboyer » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aboyer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.bwa.je\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #35,791 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « aboyer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around aboyer (IPA \a.bwa.je\), averb. Corpus frequency is #35,791 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for aboyer, with forms such as "abboyer", "aboeyr", and "aboyerr". 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, "avouer", "abuser", "adorer", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is aboyer, spelled A-B-O-Y-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire entendre son cri, en parlant d’un chien.
- 2Pousser un son inarticulé, comparable au cri du chien, sous l’effet de diverses émotions ou sensations, positives ou négatives.
- 3Crier d’un ton sec et inhumain, comme aboie un chien.
- 4Dire du mal, avec acharnement, d’une personne ou d’une chose ; la poursuivre de cris importuns, d’injures.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aboyer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aussi la plupart des chiens se contentent de l'aboyer et ne se soucient pas de le saisir […].
À l’instant un chien aboie dans le lointain ; il approche, il redouble ses cris, il arrive, il hurle de joie à nos pieds ; […]
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abboyer
- aboeyr
- aboyerr
- aboyre
- aboyyer
- abyoer
- aobyer
- baoyer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of aboyer - 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.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).