abstenez
\abs.tə.ne\
The verdict
“abstenez” is uncommon French (frequency #68,771 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,771
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de s’abstenir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-abstenez · abstenez · French
abstenez · rank #68,771 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,771
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH abattages
Nearest frequency peer: abattages (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « abstenez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Aas
Aas
31,233 corpus weight
- abad
abad
31,232 corpus weight
- abattages
abattages
31,231 corpus weight
- abstenez
abstenez
31,230 corpus weight
- accompagnons
accompagnons
31,229 corpus weight
- actionnée
actionnée
31,228 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « abstenez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abstenez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \abs.tə.ne\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,771 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « abstenez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
abstenez is uncommon French at frequency #68,771 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \abs.tə.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for abstenez, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is abstenez, spelled A-B-S-T-E-N-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de s’abstenir.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif de s’abstenir.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).