abricot

\a.bʁi.ko\

/\a.bʁi.ko\/ noun

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The verdict

“abricot” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,351. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#35,351
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fruit charnu de l’abricotier, de forme arrondie. C'est une drupe, il possède un noyau dur non comestible (car toxique), qui contient une graine, appelée amande. La couleur de sa peau velouté varie ...

Corpus desk

Index FR-abricot · abricot · French

abricot · rank #35,351 · 10 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #35,351
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH absinthe

Nearest frequency peer: absinthe (+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 « abricot »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « abricot » 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).

abricot vs abricots
88% similar

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

Key facts for abricot
PropertyValue
Headwordabricot
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.bʁi.ko\
Letters7
Frequency rank#35,351
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « abricot »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).abricotse 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 « absinthe » (#35,352), « accrus » (#35,353), « évanouit » (#35,348). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « abricot » est au #35,351. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around abricot (IPA \a.bʁi.ko\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,351 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for abricot, with forms such as "abbricot", "abircot", and "abrciot". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "abricots", 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 best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is abricot, spelled A-B-R-I-C-O-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Fruit charnu de l’abricotier, de forme arrondie. C'est une drupe, il possède un noyau dur non comestible (car toxique), qui contient une graine, appelée amande. La couleur de sa peau velouté varie du jaune, au orange et jusqu’au rouge. Sucré et peu juteux et il se consomme principalement frais, séché ou en confiture.
  2. 2
    Vulve.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. L’eau d’abricot se fait avec le ſirop d’abricot confit : lorsque l’on tire les abricots confit de leur sirop pour les faire sécher, on a soin de prendre tout de suite le sirop , sans mélange d’autre : […]
  2. La ſaveur d’un Abricot d’eſpalier n’eſt pas comparable à celle du plein-vent, il n’y acquiert jamais cette couleur d’un rouge de brique, tiquetée de points plus foncés, qui déſigne une maturité parfaite.

Synonyms

aubercotmichemis

This word in other languages

apricot(English)albaricoque(Español)Aprikose(Deutsch)damasco(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • abbricot
  • abircot
  • abrciot
  • abriccot
  • abricott
  • abricto
  • abrioct
  • abrricot
  • arbicot
  • baricot

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

abbricot1abircot2abrciot2abriccot1abricott1abricto2abrioct2abrricot1
Edit distance from "abricot"

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 "abricot"?
"abricot" is spelled A-B-R-I-C-O-T. The IPA pronunciation is \a.bʁi.ko\.
What does "abricot" mean?
As a noun, "abricot" means: Fruit charnu de l’abricotier, de forme arrondie. C'est une drupe, il possède un noyau dur non comestible (car toxique), qui contient une graine, appelée amande. La couleur de sa peau velouté varie ...
What words are commonly confused with "abricot"?
"abricot" is commonly confused with "abricots". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "abricot"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "abricot" is \a.bʁi.ko\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "abricot" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

aiguillon10 variantszeppelin10 variantsanxieuse10 variantstyphus10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list