absolument

/\ap.sɔ.ly.mɑ̃\/ adv

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.

Key facts for absolument
PropertyValue
Headwordabsolument
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\ap.sɔ.ly.mɑ̃\
Letters10
Frequency rank#1,083
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of absolument in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    D’une manière absolue ; complètement ; tout à fait.
  2. 2
    En maître.
  3. 3
    Déterminément, malgré toute opposition et toute remontrance.
  4. 4
    Indispensablement ; à tout prix.
  5. 5
    Sans restriction.
  6. 6
    Prendre, 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.

Synonyms

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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"

abbsolument11aboslument10absloument10absollument11absolmuent10absoluemnt10absolumennt11absolumentt11
Misspelling Variants of "absolument"

Frequency rank: #1,083 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "absolument"?
"absolument" is spelled A-B-S-O-L-U-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ap.sɔ.ly.mɑ̃\.
What does "absolument" mean?
As an adv, "absolument" means: D’une manière absolue ; complètement ; tout à fait.
What are common misspellings of "absolument"?
Common misspellings include "abbsolument", "aboslument", "absloument", "absollument", "absolmuent". The correct spelling is "absolument".
How do you pronounce "absolument"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "absolument" is \ap.sɔ.ly.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "absolument" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.