absolument
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,083
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
absolument is anFrenchadv. It means: D’une manière absolue ; complètement ; tout à fait. Pronounced \ap.sɔ.ly.mɑ̃\. It ranks #1,083 in French word frequency.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | absolument |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adv |
| IPA | \ap.sɔ.ly.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #1,083 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for absolument is 10 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ap.sɔ.ly.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,083 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for absolument, with forms such as "abbsolument", "aboslument", and "absloument". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 absolument, spelled A-B-S-O-L-U-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1D’une manière absolue ; complètement ; tout à fait.
- 2En maître.
- 3Déterminément, malgré toute opposition et toute remontrance.
- 4Indispensablement ; à tout prix.
- 5Sans restriction.
- 6Prendre, employer un mot absolument, c’est employer un mot seul, sans complément, quand il est plus habituel d’en donner un, ou qui est susceptible d’en avoir un.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abbsolument,aboslument,absloument,absollument,absolmuent,absoluemnt,absolumennt,absolumentt,absolumetn,absolumment,absolumnet,absoulment,abssolument,asbolument,basolument
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for absolument
Misspelling Variants of "absolument"
Frequency rank: #1,083 in French
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