Abrasion
\apʀaˈzjoːn\
The verdict
“Abrasion” is uncommon French (frequency #57,051 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,051
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abrasion ; action d’enlever en grattant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-abrasion · Abrasion · French
Abrasion · rank #57,051 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,051
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH abonder
Nearest frequency peer: abonder (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Abrasion »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- abattit
abattit
42,953 corpus weight
- abdi
abdi
42,952 corpus weight
- abonder
abonder
42,951 corpus weight
- Abrasion
Abrasion
42,950 corpus weight
- absenté
absenté
42,949 corpus weight
- Abélard
Abélard
42,948 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Abrasion » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Abrasion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \apʀaˈzjoːn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,051 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Abrasion » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Abrasion is uncommon French at frequency #57,051 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \apʀaˈzjoːn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Abrasion in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Abrasion, spelled A-B-R-A-S-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Abrasion ; action d’enlever en grattant.
- 2Abrasion ; érosion de la pierre par attrition ou par impact de particules.
- 3Abrasion ; excoriation superficielle.
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Antonyms
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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