abatement
/əˈbeɪt.mənt/
"abatement" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“abatement” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #40,100. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,100
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; a moderation; removal or putting an end to; the suppression.
Corpus desk
Index EN-abatement · abatement · English
abatement · rank #40,100 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #40,100
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH acidification
Nearest frequency peer: acidification (+2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “abatement”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Yuen
Yuen
59,906 corpus weight
- zonal
zonal
59,904 corpus weight
- abatement
abatement
59,901 corpus weight
- acidificati…
acidification
59,899 corpus weight
- Acropolis
Acropolis
59,898 corpus weight
- adaption
adaption
59,897 corpus weight
What this shows “abatement” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | abatement |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /əˈbeɪt.mənt/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #40,100 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “abatement”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around abatement (IPA /əˈbeɪt.mənt/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,100 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 11 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for abatement, with forms such as "aabtement", "abaetment", and "abateemnt". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "amazement", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English abatement, from Anglo-Norman abatre (“to abate”) (from Old French abatre), + -ment; equivalent to abate + -ment. The correct English form is abatement, spelled A-B-A-T-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; a moderation; removal or putting an end to; the suppression.
- 2The deduction of minor revenues incidental to an operation in calculating the cost of the operation.
- 3The action of a person that abates, or without proper authority enters a residence after the death of the owner and before the heir takes possession.
- 4The reduction of the proceeds of a will, when the debts have not yet been satisfied; the reduction of taxes due.
- 5An amount abated; that which is taken away by way of reduction; deduction; decrease; a rebate or discount allowed; in particular from a tax.
- 6A mark of dishonor on an escutcheon; any figure added to the coat of arms tending to lower the dignity or station of the bearer.
- 7Waste of stuff in preparing to size.
- 8A beating down, a putting down.
- 9A quashing, a judicial defeat, the rendering abortive by law.
- 10Forcible entry of a stranger into an inheritance when the person seised of it dies, and before the heir or devisee can take possession; ouster.
- 11rebatement, real or imaginary marks of disgrace affixed to an escutcheon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how abatement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The abatement of a nuisance is the suppression thereof.
Etymology
From Middle English abatement, from Anglo-Norman abatre (“to abate”) (from Old French abatre), + -ment; equivalent to abate + -ment.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aabtement
- abaetment
- abateemnt
- abatemennt
- abatementt
- abatemetn
- abatemment
- abatemnet
- abatmeent
- abattement
- abbatement
- abtaement
- baatement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of abatement - 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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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