absolu
\ap.sɔ.ly\
The verdict
“absolu” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,097. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,097
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Complet ; sans restriction.
Corpus desk
Index FR-absolu · absolu · French
absolu · rank #5,097 · 8 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,097
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH évite
Nearest frequency peer: évite (-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 « absolu »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- établie
établie
94,907 corpus weight
- établit
établit
94,906 corpus weight
- évite
évite
94,905 corpus weight
- absolu
absolu
94,904 corpus weight
- ad
ad
94,903 corpus weight
- afficher
afficher
94,902 corpus weight
What this shows « absolu » 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 | absolu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ap.sɔ.ly\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,097 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « absolu »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around absolu (IPA \ap.sɔ.ly\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,097 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 11 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for absolu, with forms such as "abbsolu", "aboslu", and "abslou". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "absolue", "absolus", "absolues", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is absolu, spelled A-B-S-O-L-U.
Definition
- 1Complet ; sans restriction.
- 2Qui a le pouvoir absolu ; qui est souverain, sans contrôle, en parlant d’une autorité, d’un État.
- 3Impérieux ; entier.
- 4Total, sans exception.
- 5Pur, en parlant d’un alcool.
- 6Qui n’est pas relatif, qui fait sens par lui-même et non par rapport à quelque chose.
- 7Dans lequel le complément habituel ou logique est absent, en parlant de l’emploi d’un verbe ou d’un nom.
- 8Qui n’est régi par aucun mot exprimé dans la proposition, en parlant d’un ablatif ou d’un génitif.
- 9Qui est indépendant de tout repère conventionnel.
- 10Groupe ayant pour visée le renouveau du genre.
- 11Qui a en soi sa raison d’être et qui n’a besoin ni pour être conçu ni pour exister d’aucune autre chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how absolu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est dire que nos banques devraient cesser de vivre sous l’empire d’un monopole aussi absolu qu’injuste et funeste.
L’emploi de moulures a le grand avantage de permettre la suppression absolue des clous cavaliers ordinairement employés pour fixer les fils.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abbsolu
- aboslu
- abslou
- absollu
- absoul
- abssolu
- asbolu
- basolu
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of absolu - 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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