abusif
\a.by.zif\
The verdict
“abusif” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,520. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,520
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Où il y a abus, qui est contraire à l’ordre, aux règles, aux lois.
Corpus desk
Index FR-abusif · abusif · French
abusif · rank #21,520 · 8 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,520
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH adolescentes
Nearest frequency peer: adolescentes (+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 « abusif »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- épilepsie
épilepsie
78,484 corpus weight
- érotiques
érotiques
78,483 corpus weight
- abusif
abusif
78,481 corpus weight
- adolescentes
adolescentes
78,480 corpus weight
- affective
affective
78,479 corpus weight
- affront
affront
78,478 corpus weight
What this shows « abusif » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | abusif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.by.zif\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #21,520 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « abusif »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around abusif (IPA \a.by.zif\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #21,520 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for abusif, with forms such as "abbusif", "absuif", and "abuisf". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "abusive", "abusifs", "abus", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is abusif, spelled A-B-U-S-I-F.
Definition
- 1Où il y a abus, qui est contraire à l’ordre, aux règles, aux lois.
- 2Qui est trompeur, spécieux.
- 3Se dit d’un mot employé dans un sens qu’il n’a pas.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how abusif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette association du politique et du religieux perpétua, jusqu’au milieu du XXᵉ siècle, un système féodal abusif entretenu par la noblesse et les moines.
Or les tribunaux grecs ont tendance à assimiler le prosélytisme abusif à la simple influence.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abbusif
- absuif
- abuisf
- abusfi
- abusiff
- abussif
- aubsif
- bausif
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of abusif - 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.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).