Abruzzes
\a.bʁyz\
The verdict
“Abruzzes” is uncommon French (frequency #66,462 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,462
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Région d’Italie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-abruzzes · Abruzzes · French
Abruzzes · rank #66,462 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,462
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH abritées
Nearest frequency peer: abritées (-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 « Abruzzes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- abaissent
abaissent
33,542 corpus weight
- abondement
abondement
33,541 corpus weight
- abritées
abritées
33,540 corpus weight
- Abruzzes
Abruzzes
33,539 corpus weight
- AccorHotels
AccorHotels
33,538 corpus weight
- accostage
accostage
33,537 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Abruzzes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Abruzzes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \a.bʁyz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #66,462 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Abruzzes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Abruzzes is uncommon French at frequency #66,462 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \a.bʁyz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Région d’Italie.".
Abruzzes has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Abruzzes, spelled A-B-R-U-Z-Z-E-S.
Definition
- 1Région d’Italie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Abruzzes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sous son nouvel aspect, avec son sayon, ses braies brunes, ses sandales lacées par-dessus ses bas bleus, son brûle-gueule, son chapeau roux à petits bords plats, il faut reconnaître qu’il avait l’air moins d’un curé que d’un parfait brigand des Abruzzes.
Très vite incriminés, les naturalistes ont procédé à une enquête visant à reconstituer la progression des loups depuis les Abruzzes jusqu'au Mercantour.
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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