abysse
\a.bis\
The verdict
“abysse” is uncommon French (frequency #69,565 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,565
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Région sous-marine très profonde, et plus particulièrement celle où ne parvient plus la lumière solaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-abysse · abysse · French
abysse · rank #69,565 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,565
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH abrupts
Nearest frequency peer: abrupts (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « abysse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- abrasifs
abrasifs
30,438 corpus weight
- abrupts
abrupts
30,437 corpus weight
- abysse
abysse
30,436 corpus weight
- ACAB
ACAB
30,435 corpus weight
- accéléra
accéléra
30,434 corpus weight
- additional
additional
30,433 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « abysse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abysse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.bis\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #69,565 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « abysse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
abysse is uncommon French at frequency #69,565 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.bis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for abysse, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is abysse, spelled A-B-Y-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Région sous-marine très profonde, et plus particulièrement celle où ne parvient plus la lumière solaire.
- 2Enfers, royaume des démons, où vit le diable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how abysse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À 150 mètres de profondeur dans les océans, 99 % de la lumière solaire a été absorbée, puis, au delà de mille mètres, la nuit est complète, le froid intense et les pressions colossales : ce sont les abysses.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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