abréger

\a.bʁe.ʒe\

/\a.bʁe.ʒe\/ verb

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The verdict

“abréger” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,792. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#35,792
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
13
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendre plus court.

Corpus desk

Index FR-abreger · abréger · French

abréger · rank #35,792 · 11 variants · 13 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #35,792
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH aboyer

Nearest frequency peer: aboyer (-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 « abréger »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « abréger » 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).

abréger vs agrégé
57% similar
abréger vs abrogé
57% similar
abréger vs agréer
71% similar

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

Key facts for abréger
PropertyValue
Headwordabréger
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.bʁe.ʒe\
Letters7
Frequency rank#35,792
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « abréger »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.abrégerse 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 « aboyer » (#35,791), « accoster » (#35,793), « abordage » (#35,790). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « abréger » est au #35,792. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around abréger (IPA \a.bʁe.ʒe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #35,792 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for abréger, with forms such as "abbréger", "abreger", and "abrgéer". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "agrégé", "abrogé", "agréer", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is abréger, spelled A-B-R-É-G-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Rendre plus court.
  2. 2
    Écourter le discours, aller à l’essentiel.
  3. 3
    Faire paraitre moins long.
  4. 4
    Écrire (un mot) en partie, le plus souvent sous une forme convenue.
  5. 5
    S’écrire d’une façon plus courte et convenue, en parlant d'un mot.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. […] ; je descendis à la lueur des flambeaux dans cette habitation de gnomes, enfoncée sous terre d'environ quatre vingt pieds ; mais l’humidité, la fraicheur et la fumée des torches abrégèrent ma promenade.
  2. Cette procédure a pour but d’abréger les délais et de diminuer les frais dans les causes entre locateurs et locataires. Elle n'exclue pas la procédure ordinaire; […].

Synonyms

écourterraccourcirabbrevier

Antonyms

rallongerdévelopper

This word in other languages

abstract(English)abreviar(Español)summieren(Deutsch)resumir(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • abbréger
  • abreger
  • abrgéer
  • abrréger
  • abréegr
  • abrégerr
  • abrégger
  • abrégre
  • abérger
  • arbéger
  • baréger

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of abréger - 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.

abbréger1abreger1abrgéer2abrréger1abréegr2abrégerr1abrégger1abrégre2
Edit distance from "abréger"

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 "abréger"?
"abréger" is spelled A-B-R-É-G-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \a.bʁe.ʒe\.
What does "abréger" mean?
As a verb, "abréger" means: Rendre plus court.
What words are commonly confused with "abréger"?
"abréger" is commonly confused with "agrégé", "abrogé", "agréer". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "abréger"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "abréger" 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 "abréger" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

évitons#35,787équerre#35,786épousée#35,785altérée#35,804

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

abordage11 variantsvitrées11 variantsassorties11 variantsassouplir11 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list