abaisser
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,589
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
abaisser is aFrenchverb. It means: Mettre en position plus basse, faire descendre, diminuer la hauteur. Pronounced \a.be.se\. Often confused with apaiser and amasser.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abaisser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.be.se\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,589 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for abaisser is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.be.se\. Corpus data places it at rank #14,589 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for abaisser, with forms such as "aabisser", "abaiser", and "abaisesr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "apaiser", "amasser", "abc", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is abaisser, spelled A-B-A-I-S-S-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mettre en position plus basse, faire descendre, diminuer la hauteur.
- 2Déprimer ou humilier, en parlant d'une personne.
- 3Étendre de la pâte au moyen d’un rouleau à pâtisserie, et la rendre plus mince.
- 4Diminuer la quantité de, rendre moins élevé.
- 5Diminuer le degré d’une équation.
- 6Diminuer le degré d’une équation.
- 7Pour une branche d’arbre, la raccourcir.
- 8Pour un oiseau, diminuer sa nourriture habituelle pour le rendre plus léger au vol.
- 9Pour la cataracte : faire descendre, à l’aide d’une aiguille introduite dans la chambre postérieure de l’œil, le cristallin au-dessous du niveau de la pupille.
- 10Descendre à une position plus basse.
- 11Perdre sa dignité, sa fierté.
- 12Se baisser.
- 13Condescendre, consentir, se soumettre.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aabisser,abaiser,abaisesr,abaisserr,abaissre,abasiser,abbaisser,abiasser,baaisser
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for abaisser
Misspelling Variants of "abaisser"
Frequency rank: #14,589 in French
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