abstrus
\ap.stʁy\
The verdict
“abstrus” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est difficile à comprendre, à saisir par l’esprit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-abstrus · abstrus · French
abstrus · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abstrus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ap.stʁy\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “abstrus” se place dans la fréquence du français
Rare enough to double-check
abstrus is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ap.stʁy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for abstrus in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 abstrus, spelled A-B-S-T-R-U-S.
Definition
- 1Qui est difficile à comprendre, à saisir par l’esprit.
- 2S’applique quelquefois aux personnes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how abstrus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ou bien, d’une voix astucieuse et basse, il expliquait à des auditeurs imaginaires des questions abstruses de politique. Les autres malades l’écoutaient en silence […].
Et le plus dangereux de cette expérience abstruse n’était pas encore cette division de ma pensée à l’intérieur de moi-même, mais le fait que tout se passait en imagination…
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