abattage
\a.ba.taʒ\
The verdict
“abattage” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #16,791 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #16,791
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Action d’abattre, de faire tomber les bois qui sont sur pied.
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 | abattage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ba.taʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #16,791 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “abattage” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for abattage is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ba.taʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #16,791 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 generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for abattage, with forms such as "aabttage", "abatage", and "abatatge". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "abattre", "abattue", "avantage", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is abattage, spelled A-B-A-T-T-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action d’abattre, de faire tomber les bois qui sont sur pied.
- 2Action de tuer des animaux, en vue de la boucherie, pour limiter la prolifération d’une espèce ou par précaution contre une épidémie.
- 3En grande quantité.
- 4Action de retourner une pierre, une pièce de bois dans un chantier.
- 5Taille, recoupement de la pierre en lui conservant une face.
- 6Action de détacher, d’extraire un minerai d’un gisement.
- 7Action d’abattre un navire, c’est-à-dire de le mettre sur le côté pour le réparer.
- 8À certains jeux, action d’abattre, de poser et dévoiler ses cartes sur la table ou le plateau de jeu.
- 9Sévère correction.
- 10Vigueur, entrain.
- 11Forme de prostitution qui consiste à réaliser un grand nombre de passes chaque jour.
- 12Réprimande de patron à ouvrier.
- 13Modelage consistant à riper les gradins à l’outil.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aabttage,abatage,abatatge,abattaeg,abattagge,abattgae,abbattage,abtatage,baattage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of abattage - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “abattage”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-B-A-T-T-A-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \a.ba.taʒ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “abattre” - see the side-by-side comparison. abattage vs abattre
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.