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abŷme

French, noun/a.bim/

abŷme is spelled A-B-Ŷ-M-E (5 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 50,716th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Abŷme is a French masculine noun meaning “rare spelling of abîme” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Variante orthographique de abime”.

What does abŷme mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinerarerare spelling of abîme

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Variante orthographique de abîme. 2. Section centrale du blason sur un écu armorial.

noun: 1. Variante orthographique de abime.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of abŷme

  • abŷmes plural
  • abymes plural
  • abysme archaic

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce abŷme?

  • /a.bim/
  • \a.bim\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is abŷme in French?

abŷme appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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