abstract
\abs.tʁakt\
The verdict
“abstract” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,712. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,712
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Analyse succincte d’un ouvrage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-abstract · abstract · French
abstract · rank #42,712 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,712
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH abstiennent
Nearest frequency peer: abstiennent (-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 « abstract »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- évêchés
évêchés
57,295 corpus weight
- abolis
abolis
57,291 corpus weight
- abstiennent
abstiennent
57,290 corpus weight
- abstract
abstract
57,289 corpus weight
- accablante
accablante
57,287 corpus weight
- accordes
accordes
57,286 corpus weight
What this shows « abstract » 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 | abstract |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \abs.tʁakt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #42,712 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « abstract »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around abstract (IPA \abs.tʁakt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,712 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Analyse succincte d’un ouvrage.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for abstract, with forms such as "abbstract", "absrtact", and "absstract". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "abstrait", "abstraite", "abstraits", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 abstract, spelled A-B-S-T-R-A-C-T.
Definition
- 1Analyse succincte d’un ouvrage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how abstract appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les 10 cas rapportés par Mauri et al. ne furent présentés seulement que dans un abstract.
Aucun résultat publié n’est actuellement disponible mais plusieurs abstracts rapportent des données d’efficacité et de tolérance intéressantes avec des associations anthracyclines liposomiales-trastuzumab.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abbstract
- absrtact
- absstract
- abstarct
- abstracct
- abstractt
- abstratc
- abstrcat
- abstrract
- absttract
- abtsract
- asbtract
- bastract
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of abstract - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).