abus de langage
\a.by də lɑ̃.ɡaʒ\
The verdict
“abus de langage” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Fait d’utiliser un mot dans un sens, en principe, incorrect.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abus de langage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.by də lɑ̃.ɡaʒ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “abus de langage” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for abus de langage is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, 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.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for abus de langage, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 abus de langage, spelled A-B-U-S- -D-E- -L-A-N-G-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Fait d’utiliser un mot dans un sens, en principe, incorrect.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-B-U-S- -D-E- -L-A-N-G-A-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \a.by də lɑ̃.ɡaʒ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.