abyssine
\a.bi.sin\
The verdict
“abyssine” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dysenterie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-abyssine · abyssine · French
abyssine · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abyssine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.bi.sin\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
abyssine is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.bi.sin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dysenterie.".
abyssine doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 abyssine, spelled A-B-Y-S-S-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Dysenterie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how abyssine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La dysenterie… Depuis vingt-cinq ans au moins il en sévissait une forme terrible par toute la Sicile. Propagée par les soldats au retour de la malencontreuse expédition contre Ménélik. On avait rapporté cela d’Adoua, avec le souvenir d’une écrasante défaite… Un millier de morts et la colique… C’était pour cela qu’on l’appelait l’abyssine. Plus redoutée qu…
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