abat
\a.ba\
The verdict
“abat” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,305. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,305
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fait d’abattre, au sens de tuer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-abat · abat · French
abat · rank #13,305 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,305
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH 4x4
Nearest frequency peer: 4x4 (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « abat »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- évitez
évitez
86,699 corpus weight
- 4x4
4x4
86,697 corpus weight
- abat
abat
86,696 corpus weight
- adjoints
adjoints
86,695 corpus weight
- ajuster
ajuster
86,694 corpus weight
- aligner
aligner
86,693 corpus weight
What this shows « abat » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | abat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ba\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #13,305 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « abat »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around abat (IPA \a.ba\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,305 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for abat, with forms such as "aabt", "abatt", and "abbat". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "at", "Art", "ait", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is abat, spelled A-B-A-T.
Definition
- 1Fait d’abattre, au sens de tuer.
- 2Parties comestibles du cinquième quartier des animaux qui ne consistent pas en chair, en muscle et vendues par un tripier : foie, cœur, rognons, langue, pieds, peau, graisse, tripes.
- 3Averse, pluie abondante ou forte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how abat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’abat d’animaux.
Un marchand d’abats se dit plutôt aujourd’hui tripier.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aabt
- abatt
- abbat
- abta
- baat
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of abat - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).