absorbant
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#28,428
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
absorbant is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui absorbe. Pronounced \ap.sɔʁ.bɑ̃\. Often confused with absorbent and abordant.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | absorbant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ap.sɔʁ.bɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #28,428 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for absorbant is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ap.sɔʁ.bɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #28,428 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for absorbant, with forms such as "abbsorbant", "abosrbant", and "absobrant". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "absorbent", "abordant", 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 absorbant, spelled A-B-S-O-R-B-A-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui absorbe.
- 2Se dit des substances et des préparations médicinales ayant la propriété d’absorber les acides qui se développent spontanément dans l’estomac. Médicaments servant à absorber les liquides et les gaz.
- 3Qui s’empare de l’esprit, qui l’occupe tout entier.
- 4Qui est absorbé.
- 5Qualifie une personne désireuse avant tout de faire connaître ses idées.
- 6Qualifie un sous-graphe orienté pour lequel il n’existe aucun arc de son graphe qui ne lui soit pas un arc incident vers l’intérieur.
- 7Se dit d’un élément d’un ensemble qui, pour une loi de composition interne donnée, transforme tous les autres éléments en lui-même lorsqu’il est combiné avec eux par cette loi.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abbsorbant,abosrbant,absobrant,absorabnt,absorbannt,absorbantt,absorbatn,absorbbant,absorbnat,absorrbant,absrobant,abssorbant,asborbant,basorbant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for absorbant
Misspelling Variants of "absorbant"
Frequency rank: #28,428 in French
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