abus de langage

/\a.by də lɑ̃.ɡaʒ\/ noun

Letters

15 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

abus de langage is aFrenchnoun. It means: Fait d’utiliser un mot dans un sens, en principe, incorrect. Pronounced \a.by də lɑ̃.ɡaʒ\.

Key facts for abus de langage
PropertyValue
Headwordabus de langage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.by də lɑ̃.ɡaʒ\
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

abus de langage is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for abus de langage is 15 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.by də lɑ̃.ɡaʒ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Fait d’utiliser un mot dans un sens, en principe, incorrect.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for abus de langage in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is abus de langage, spelled A-B-U-S- -D-E- -L-A-N-G-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Fait d’utiliser un mot dans un sens, en principe, incorrect.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "abus de langage"?
"abus de langage" is spelled A-B-U-S- -D-E- -L-A-N-G-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.by də lɑ̃.ɡaʒ\.
What does "abus de langage" mean?
As a noun, "abus de langage" means: Fait d’utiliser un mot dans un sens, en principe, incorrect.
How do you pronounce "abus de langage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "abus de langage" is \a.by də lɑ̃.ɡaʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "abus de langage" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.