absolu
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,097
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
absolu is anFrenchadj. It means: Complet ; sans restriction. Pronounced \ap.sɔ.ly\. It ranks #5,097 in French word frequency. Often confused with absolue and absolus.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | absolu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ap.sɔ.ly\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,097 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for absolu is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ap.sɔ.ly\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,097 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for absolu, with forms such as "abbsolu", "aboslu", and "abslou". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "absolue", "absolus", "absolues", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is absolu, spelled A-B-S-O-L-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abbsolu,aboslu,abslou,absollu,absoul,abssolu,asbolu,basolu
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for absolu
Misspelling Variants of "absolu"
Frequency rank: #5,097 in French
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