abrutissement
\a.bʁy.tis.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“abrutissement” is uncommon French (frequency #54,372 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,372
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’abrutir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-abrutissement · abrutissement · French
abrutissement · rank #54,372 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,372
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH abolissant
Nearest frequency peer: abolissant (-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 « abrutissement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- abolissant
abolissant
45,630 corpus weight
- abrutisseme…
abrutissement
45,629 corpus weight
- accoste
accoste
45,628 corpus weight
- achèteront
achèteront
45,627 corpus weight
- acomptes
acomptes
45,626 corpus weight
- acosta
acosta
45,625 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « abrutissement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abrutissement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.bʁy.tis.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #54,372 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « abrutissement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
abrutissement is uncommon French at frequency #54,372 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.bʁy.tis.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for abrutissement, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 abrutissement, spelled A-B-R-U-T-I-S-S-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action d’abrutir.
- 2État d’une personne abrutie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how abrutissement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et Barnier, ce garçon si bon et si tranquille, quelle folie lui traverse le cerveau ? Une fois la sottise faite, la forme que prend son repentir, son volontaire abrutissement par l’absinthe, son suicide, tout cela est-il d’accord avec l’idée qu’on nous a donnée de son caractère ?
Nous fûmes, Lambert et moi, si accablés de pensum, que nous n’avons pas eu six jours de liberté durant nos deux années d’amitié. Sans les livres que nous tirions de la bibliothèque, et qui entretenaient la vie dans notre cerveau, ce système d’existence nous eût menés à un abrutissement complet.
Synonyms
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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