abside
\ap.sid\
The verdict
“abside” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,256. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,256
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tribune ou grande niche surmontée d’une voûte qui terminait les basiliques antiques, décrite par les premiers écrivains chrétiens.
Corpus desk
Index FR-abside · abside · French
abside · rank #32,256 · 8 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,256
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH abrogé
Nearest frequency peer: abrogé (-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 « abside »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- abrogé
abrogé
67,746 corpus weight
- abside
abside
67,745 corpus weight
- absolution
absolution
67,744 corpus weight
- addictions
addictions
67,743 corpus weight
- aequo
aequo
67,742 corpus weight
- affirmative
affirmative
67,741 corpus weight
What this shows « abside » 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 | abside |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ap.sid\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #32,256 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « abside »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around abside (IPA \ap.sid\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,256 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for abside, with forms such as "abbside", "abisde", and "absdie". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "aide", "Asie", "acide", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 abside, spelled A-B-S-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1Tribune ou grande niche surmontée d’une voûte qui terminait les basiliques antiques, décrite par les premiers écrivains chrétiens.
- 2Extrémité d’une église, derrière le chœur, de forme arrondie en hémicycle.
- 3Voûte, partie semi-circulaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how abside appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En traversant le bourg de Garchy, on s'arrête pour jeter un coup-d’œil sur l’abside à pans coupés de son église, et pour considérer l’entablement garni de têtes de clous et soutenu par des modillons ornés de feuilles de fantaisie et de figures bizarres d'animaux.
Mon espace à moi, c’était celui qui s’étendait du portail à l’abside; ma liberté, c’était de rêver, pendant deux heures, à genoux sur une tombe ou accoudé à une colonne.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abbside
- abisde
- absdie
- absidde
- absied
- absside
- asbide
- baside
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of abside - 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
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).