absurde

\ap.syʁd\

/\ap.syʁd\/ adj

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The verdict

“absurde” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,829. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#5,829
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Insensé ; contraire au bon sens ou au sens commun.

Corpus desk

Index FR-absurde · absurde · French

absurde · rank #5,829 · 10 variants · 7 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #5,829
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH 3ème

Nearest frequency peer: 3ème (-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 « absurde »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « absurde » 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).

absurde vs assuré
57% similar
absurde vs assurée
71% similar
absurde vs absurdes
88% similar

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

Key facts for absurde
PropertyValue
Headwordabsurde
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ap.syʁd\
Letters7
Frequency rank#5,829
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « absurde »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.absurdese 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 « 3ème » (#5,828), « adoptée » (#5,830), « alarme » (#5,831). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « absurde » est au #5,829. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around absurde (IPA \ap.syʁd\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,829 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for absurde, with forms such as "abbsurde", "absrude", and "abssurde". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "assuré", "assurée", "absurdes", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 absurde, spelled A-B-S-U-R-D-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Insensé ; contraire au bon sens ou au sens commun.
  2. 2
    Qualifie une personne qui parle ou agit de manière absurde.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Le règne de l’absurde crinoline venait de finir et une robe bien coupée mettait en relief tous les avantages naturels de la dame […].
  2. Chaque épisode est une suite de gags absurdes, de situations grand-guignolesques, d’humour ironique.

Synonyms

aberrantinsaneinsensékafkaïennawaksaugrenuubuesque

This word in other languages

absurd(English)absurdo(Español)widersinnig(Deutsch)disparatado(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • abbsurde
  • absrude
  • abssurde
  • absudre
  • absurdde
  • absured
  • absurrde
  • abusrde
  • asburde
  • basurde

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of absurde - 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.

abbsurde1absrude2abssurde1absudre2absurdde1absured2absurrde1abusrde2
Edit distance from "absurde"

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 "absurde"?
"absurde" is spelled A-B-S-U-R-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ap.syʁd\.
What does "absurde" mean?
As an adjective, "absurde" means: Insensé ; contraire au bon sens ou au sens commun.
What words are commonly confused with "absurde"?
"absurde" is commonly confused with "assuré", "assurée", "absurdes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "absurde"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "absurde" is \ap.syʁd\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "absurde" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

adoptée#5,830Anthony#5,834solides#5,814confier#5,847

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

barrière10 variantscolonnes10 variantsressenti10 variantspatrons10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list