abstinent
\ap.sti.nɑ̃\
The verdict
“abstinent” is uncommon French (frequency #98,693 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,693
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est modéré dans le boire et le manger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-abstinent · abstinent · French
abstinent · rank #98,693 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,693
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ablatif
Nearest frequency peer: ablatif (-2 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 « abstinent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- abandonnera…
abandonnerais
1,311 corpus weight
- ablatif
ablatif
1,310 corpus weight
- abstinent
abstinent
1,308 corpus weight
- accrochais
accrochais
1,306 corpus weight
- acrostiche
acrostiche
1,305 corpus weight
- acute
acute
1,304 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « abstinent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abstinent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ap.sti.nɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #98,693 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « abstinent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
abstinent is uncommon French at frequency #98,693 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ap.sti.nɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for abstinent, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is abstinent, spelled A-B-S-T-I-N-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui est modéré dans le boire et le manger.
- 2Qui ne boit pas d’alcool.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how abstinent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après l’invasion de Francisco ‘Pancho’ Villa sur le sol américain en 1916 (Colombus, Nouveau-Mexique), les Mexicains sont taxés de « bandits violents », de « buveurs insatiables » et de « hors-la-lois » par la presse américaine, alors même que Pancho Villa est abstinent.
This word in other languages
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).