abscisse
\ab.sis\
The verdict
“abscisse” is uncommon French (frequency #62,020 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,020
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sur une droite orientée, distance d’un point à l’origine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-abscisse · abscisse · French
abscisse · rank #62,020 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,020
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Abdelkrim
Nearest frequency peer: Abdelkrim (-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 « abscisse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Abdelkrim
Abdelkrim
37,982 corpus weight
- abscisse
abscisse
37,981 corpus weight
- accaparent
accaparent
37,980 corpus weight
- accomplisse
accomplisse
37,979 corpus weight
- accorderait
accorderait
37,978 corpus weight
- accoudoir
accoudoir
37,977 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « abscisse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abscisse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ab.sis\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #62,020 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « abscisse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
abscisse is uncommon French at frequency #62,020 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ab.sis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for abscisse, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is abscisse, spelled A-B-S-C-I-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Sur une droite orientée, distance d’un point à l’origine.
- 2Position du point qui correspond à cette distance.
- 3Position du point qui correspond à cette distance.
- 4Position du point qui correspond à cette distance.
- 5Couche de cellules qui, en se desséchant, amènent la chute des feuilles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how abscisse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La distance AP est nommée l’abscisse du point M et la longueur PM en est l’ordonnée.
Si d’un point quelconque N on mène NR = QA = a parallèle à l’axe des abscisses, et N Q = RA = b parallèle à l’axe des ordonnées, il est évident que ces distances déterminent exactement la position du point N sur ce plan. a sera l’abscisse
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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