abstraite

\aps.tʁɛt\

/\aps.tʁɛt\/ adj

The verdict

“abstraite” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,219. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#21,219
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de abstrait.

Corpus desk

Index FR-abstraite · abstraite · French

abstraite · rank #21,219 · 13 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #21,219
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH Acadie

Nearest frequency peer: Acadie (+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 « abstraite »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « abstraite » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

abstraite vs absurdité
67% similar
abstraite vs abstraits
89% similar
abstraite vs abstraites
90% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for abstraite
PropertyValue
Headwordabstraite
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\aps.tʁɛt\
Letters9
Frequency rank#21,219
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « abstraite »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).abstraitese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Acadie » (#21,220), « évoquées » (#21,217), « accepta » (#21,221). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « abstraite » est au #21,219. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around abstraite (IPA \aps.tʁɛt\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #21,219 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de abstrait.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for abstraite, with forms such as "abbstraite", "absrtaite", and "absstraite". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "absurdité", "abstraits", "abstraites", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is abstraite, spelled A-B-S-T-R-A-I-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin singulier de abstrait.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how abstraite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Cette approche, qui a «désabstractisé» la phonologie par rapport aux démarches pragoises, a par ailleurs permis de poser une autre unité très abstraite, fondée sur une vue quelque peu distributionaliste, avec le concept de «diaphone», entité qui traverse les frontières d’un corpus donné et constitue en effet — du moins dans notre optique — la base réelle…

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • abbstraite
  • absrtaite
  • absstraite
  • abstarite
  • abstraiet
  • abstraitte
  • abstratie
  • abstriate
  • abstrraite
  • absttraite
  • abtsraite
  • asbtraite
  • bastraite

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of abstraite - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

abbstraite1absrtaite2absstraite1abstarite2abstraiet2abstraitte1abstratie2abstriate2
Edit distance from "abstraite"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "abstraite"?
"abstraite" is spelled A-B-S-T-R-A-I-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \aps.tʁɛt\.
What does "abstraite" mean?
As an adjective, "abstraite" means: Féminin singulier de abstrait.
What words are commonly confused with "abstraite"?
"abstraite" is commonly confused with "absurdité", "abstraits", "abstraites". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "abstraite"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "abstraite" is \aps.tʁɛt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "abstraite" come from?
"abstraite" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "abstraite", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list