abrégé

\a.bʁe.ʒe\

/\a.bʁe.ʒe\/ noun

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The verdict

“abrégé” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,322. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#17,322
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
14
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Écrit ou discours dans lequel on rend d’une manière succincte ce qui est ou ce qui pourrait être plus développé.

Corpus desk

Index FR-abrege · abrégé · French

abrégé · rank #17,322 · 9 variants · 14 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #17,322
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH accentuer

Nearest frequency peer: accentuer (+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 « abrégé »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « abrégé » 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).

abrégé vs arène
33% similar
abrégé vs arête
33% similar
abrégé vs arrêté
50% similar

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

Key facts for abrégé
PropertyValue
Headwordabrégé
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.bʁe.ʒe\
Letters6
Frequency rank#17,322
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs14
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « abrégé »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).abrégése place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « accentuer » (#17,323), « accueillera » (#17,324), « évaluée » (#17,319). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « abrégé » est au #17,322. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around abrégé (IPA \a.bʁe.ʒe\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,322 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for abrégé, with forms such as "abbrégé", "abrege", and "abrgéé". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "arène", "arête", "arrêté", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is abrégé, spelled A-B-R-É-G-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Écrit ou discours dans lequel on rend d’une manière succincte ce qui est ou ce qui pourrait être plus développé.
  2. 2
    Points essentiels d’une proposition, d’une réclamation, etc.
  3. 3
    Abrégé pneumatique : Système de clavier à commande pneumatique à dépression destiné aux orgues et imaginé par le facteur d’orgue Prosper-Antoine Moitessier de Montpellier.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Mézeray a fait lui-même un abrégé de sa grande Histoire de France.
  2. On a réduit toute cette science en abrégé ; on en a fait un abrégé.

This word in other languages

abridged(English)resumen(Español)Übersicht(Deutsch)resumo(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • abbrégé
  • abrege
  • abrgéé
  • abrrégé
  • abréggé
  • abréég
  • abérgé
  • arbégé
  • barégé

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of abrégé - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

abbrégé1abrege2abrgéé2abrrégé1abréggé1abréég2abérgé2arbégé2
Edit distance from "abrégé"

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 "abrégé"?
"abrégé" is spelled A-B-R-É-G-É. The IPA pronunciation is \a.bʁe.ʒe\.
What does "abrégé" mean?
As a noun, "abrégé" means: Écrit ou discours dans lequel on rend d’une manière succincte ce qui est ou ce qui pourrait être plus développé.
What words are commonly confused with "abrégé"?
"abrégé" is commonly confused with "arène", "arête", "arrêté". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "abrégé"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "abrégé" is \a.bʁe.ʒe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "abrégé" come from?
"abrégé" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

écorce#17,316bannir#17,353Beauce#17,354things#17,290

Similar misspelling depth

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

évaluée9 variantsappellera9 variantsaucunes9 variantsBolloré9 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list