abstiens
\abs.tjɛ̃\
The verdict
“abstiens” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,890. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,890
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de s’abstenir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-abstiens · abstiens · French
abstiens · rank #48,890 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,890
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH abrupt
Nearest frequency peer: abrupt (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « abstiens »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- abb
abb
51,114 corpus weight
- aboiements
aboiements
51,113 corpus weight
- abrupt
abrupt
51,112 corpus weight
- abstiens
abstiens
51,111 corpus weight
- abyssale
abyssale
51,110 corpus weight
- accoutumance
accoutumance
51,109 corpus weight
What this shows « abstiens » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abstiens |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \abs.tjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #48,890 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « abstiens »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around abstiens (IPA \abs.tjɛ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #48,890 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for abstiens, with forms such as "abbstiens", "absitens", and "absstiens". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "abstient", "abstenu", "abstenus", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is abstiens, spelled A-B-S-T-I-E-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de s’abstenir.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de s’abstenir.
- 3Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de s’abstenir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how abstiens appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ici on se chamaille — on s’est chamaillé pour les lettres de Zola, on s’est chamaillé pour le ministère Dufaure, on se chamaille pour la présidence Grévy, on ne déchamaille pas ; je m’abstiens complètement de ces sortes de choses et lorsque, le jeudi soir, les discussions deviennent un peu vives, je rentre paisiblement me coucher, trouvant mon lit supérie…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abbstiens
- absitens
- absstiens
- absteins
- abstienns
- abstienss
- abstiesn
- abstines
- absttiens
- abtsiens
- asbtiens
- bastiens
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of abstiens - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).