abstraire
\ab.stʁɛʁ\
The verdict
“abstraire” is uncommon French (frequency #83,546 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,546
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Considérer isolément par abstraction des choses qui sont unies.
Corpus desk
Index FR-abstraire · abstraire · French
abstraire · rank #83,546 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,546
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH abrégés
Nearest frequency peer: abrégés (-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 « abstraire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- abandonnero…
abandonnerons
16,457 corpus weight
- abrégés
abrégés
16,456 corpus weight
- abstraire
abstraire
16,455 corpus weight
- accompagnais
accompagnais
16,454 corpus weight
- accordeur
accordeur
16,453 corpus weight
- accordèrent
accordèrent
16,452 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « abstraire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abstraire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ab.stʁɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #83,546 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « abstraire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
abstraire is uncommon French at frequency #83,546 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ab.stʁɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for abstraire in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is abstraire, spelled A-B-S-T-R-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Considérer isolément par abstraction des choses qui sont unies.
- 2Se plonger dans la méditation ou dans la rêverie, n’avoir de pensée et d’attention que pour l’objet intérieur qui occupe.
- 3Séparer abusivement un élément du tout dont il fait partie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how abstraire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bébé abstrait le bleu de plusieurs jouets bleus, mais ne lui parlez pas d’abstraire.
Remarquez même que ces deux opérations opposées, concraire et abstraire, se trouvent toujours réunies, et sont nécessaires toutes les deux dans la formation de toute idée composée quelconque ; car toutes les fois que je forme une nouvelle idée avec divers élémens pris çà et là, si je sépare chacun de ces élémens de circonstances que je néglige parce qu’el…
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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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