abstraction
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,508
in French word usage
Misspellings
17
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
abstraction is aFrenchnoun. It means: Opération par laquelle l’esprit isole une caractéristique d'un ensemble. Pronounced \ap.stʁak.sjɔ̃\. Often confused with attraction.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abstraction |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ap.stʁak.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #12,508 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for abstraction is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ap.stʁak.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #12,508 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for abstraction, with forms such as "abbstraction", "absrtaction", and "absstraction". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "attraction", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is abstraction, spelled A-B-S-T-R-A-C-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Opération par laquelle l’esprit isole une caractéristique d'un ensemble.
- 2Idée générale créant un lien unitaire, par l'esprit, entre plusieurs réalités concrètes qui comportent un trait commun mais sont différentes dans le détail.
- 3Idée trop théorique tellement éloignée de la réalité qu'elle risque de donner lieu à des absurdités, à des non-sens ou à un résultat inutile.
- 4Préoccupation, rêverie qui empêche un homme de penser aux choses dont on lui parle ou qu’il a sous les yeux.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abbstraction,absrtaction,absstraction,abstarction,abstracction,abstraciton,abstractino,abstractionn,abstractoin,abstracttion,abstratcion,abstrcation,abstrraction,absttraction,abtsraction,asbtraction,bastraction
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for abstraction
Misspelling Variants of "abstraction"
Frequency rank: #12,508 in French
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