absenté
\ab.sɑ̃.te\
The verdict
“absenté” is uncommon French (frequency #57,052 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,052
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe absenter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-absente · absenté · French
absenté · rank #57,052 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,052
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Abrasion
Nearest frequency peer: Abrasion (-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 « absenté »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- abdi
abdi
42,952 corpus weight
- abonder
abonder
42,951 corpus weight
- Abrasion
Abrasion
42,950 corpus weight
- absenté
absenté
42,949 corpus weight
- Abélard
Abélard
42,948 corpus weight
- acceptèrent
acceptèrent
42,947 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « absenté » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | absenté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ab.sɑ̃.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,052 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « absenté » en français
Rare enough to double-check
absenté is uncommon French at frequency #57,052 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ab.sɑ̃.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe absenter.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for absenté, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is absenté, spelled A-B-S-E-N-T-É.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe absenter.
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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