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abri

/əˈbɹi/noun

abri is spelled A-B-R-I: 4 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 121,279th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, abri means “a shelter; a cavity in a hillside; a shelter on the side of hill with an overhung rock as its roof” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of abri is abris.

How many letters and syllables are in abri?

Letters4: A-B-R-I
Syllables2 (from its pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 16 million words; the 121,279th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is abri?

Abri appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 121,279th most frequent word form in the list.

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

How do you pronounce abri?

  • UK /əˈbɹiː/
  • UK /ɑːˈbɹiː/
  • US /əˈbɹi/

Abri has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What rhymes with abri?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as abri from its last stressed vowel (/i/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: bari, rabi, abir.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of abri

  • abris plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does abri mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    a shelter; a cavity in a hillside; a shelter on the side of hill with an overhung rock as its roof

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does abri come from?

Borrowed from French abri (“shelter”), from Old French abrier (“to shelter”), see below.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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