attrition
\at.ʁi.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“attrition” is uncommon French (frequency #61,318 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,318
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Usure de deux corps durs par frottement mutuel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-attrition · attrition · French
attrition · rank #61,318 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,318
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH attenter
Nearest frequency peer: attenter (-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 « attrition »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- asticot
asticot
38,686 corpus weight
- attenter
attenter
38,684 corpus weight
- attrition
attrition
38,683 corpus weight
- autonomiste
autonomiste
38,682 corpus weight
- Auvers
Auvers
38,681 corpus weight
- Auxonne
Auxonne
38,680 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « attrition » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | attrition |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \at.ʁi.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #61,318 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « attrition » en français
Rare enough to double-check
attrition is uncommon French at frequency #61,318 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \at.ʁi.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for attrition, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is attrition, spelled A-T-T-R-I-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Usure de deux corps durs par frottement mutuel.
- 2Regret d’avoir offensé Dieu, causé par la crainte des peines du purgatoire ou de l’enfer.
- 3Diminution progressive, comme par usure, d’une quantité d'effectif, de substance ou d’autres éléments non forcément matériels.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how attrition appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est par l’attrition que l’on aiguise, que l’on polit les métaux.
L’attrition ne suffit pas sans la confession.
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Antonyms
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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