abu
The verdict
“abu” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #12,892) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #12,892
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tortue de mer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-abu · abu · French
abu · rank #12,892 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,892
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH abruti
Nearest frequency peer: abruti (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « abu »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- éloignée
éloignée
87,112 corpus weight
- élémentaires
élémentaires
87,111 corpus weight
- abruti
abruti
87,110 corpus weight
- abu
abu
87,109 corpus weight
- accueillant
accueillant
87,108 corpus weight
- accueillis
accueillis
87,107 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « abu » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #12,892 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « abu »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for abu is neighbouring look-alikes ("au", "As", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #12,892 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Tortue de mer.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for abu, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "au", "As", "an", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is abu, spelled A-B-U.
Definition
- 1Tortue de mer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how abu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Abu kun juli asue nin anvan.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).