abrupt
\a.bʁypt\
The verdict
“abrupt” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,889. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,889
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dont la pente est escarpée et comme rompue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-abrupt · abrupt · French
abrupt · rank #48,889 · 9 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,889
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aboiements
Nearest frequency peer: aboiements (-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 « abrupt »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- aba
aba
51,115 corpus weight
- abb
abb
51,114 corpus weight
- aboiements
aboiements
51,113 corpus weight
- abrupt
abrupt
51,112 corpus weight
- abstiens
abstiens
51,111 corpus weight
- abyssale
abyssale
51,110 corpus weight
What this shows « abrupt » 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 | abrupt |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.bʁypt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #48,889 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « abrupt »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around abrupt (IPA \a.bʁypt\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #48,889 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for abrupt, with forms such as "abbrupt", "abrput", and "abrrupt". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "abruti", "abrupte", "abruptes", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is abrupt, spelled A-B-R-U-P-T.
Definition
- 1Dont la pente est escarpée et comme rompue.
- 2Qualifie une manière d’écrire rompue, sans liaison.
- 3Direct, sec, sans civilités, en parlant d’une personne.
- 4Qui arrive soudainement, sans qu’on y soit préparé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how abrupt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Par-dessus l’autre bord du navire, j’aperçus, vivement éclairée par l’incendie, la falaise abrupte qui descend vers Lübeck.
Le porc-épic creuse de préférence son terrier dans les parois abruptes et boisées des vallées solitaires.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abbrupt
- abrput
- abrrupt
- abruppt
- abruptt
- abrutp
- aburpt
- arbupt
- barupt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of abrupt - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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