abstenue
\abs.tə.ny\
The verdict
“abstenue” is uncommon French (frequency #74,518 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,518
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin singulier de abstenir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-abstenue · abstenue · French
abstenue · rank #74,518 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,518
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH absolutiste
Nearest frequency peer: absolutiste (-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 « abstenue »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- abjurer
abjurer
25,486 corpus weight
- Aboukir
Aboukir
25,485 corpus weight
- absolutiste
absolutiste
25,484 corpus weight
- abstenue
abstenue
25,483 corpus weight
- abîment
abîment
25,482 corpus weight
- accouplent
accouplent
25,481 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « abstenue » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abstenue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \abs.tə.ny\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,518 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « abstenue » en français
Rare enough to double-check
abstenue is uncommon French at frequency #74,518 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \abs.tə.ny\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin singulier de abstenir.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for abstenue in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is abstenue, spelled A-B-S-T-E-N-U-E.
Definition
- 1Participe passé féminin singulier de 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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