abattage

/\a.ba.taʒ\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#16,791

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

abattage is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action d’abattre, de faire tomber les bois qui sont sur pied. Pronounced \a.ba.taʒ\. Often confused with abattre and abattue.

Key facts for abattage
PropertyValue
Headwordabattage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.ba.taʒ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#16,791
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of abattage in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for abattage is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for abattage, with forms such as "aabttage", "abatage", and "abatatge". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "abattre", "abattue", "avantage", 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 abattage, spelled A-B-A-T-T-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action d’abattre, de faire tomber les bois qui sont sur pied.
  2. 2
    Action de tuer des animaux, en vue de la boucherie, pour limiter la prolifération d’une espèce ou par précaution contre une épidémie.
  3. 3
    En grande quantité.
  4. 4
    Action de retourner une pierre, une pièce de bois dans un chantier.
  5. 5
    Taille, recoupement de la pierre en lui conservant une face.
  6. 6
    Action de détacher, d’extraire un minerai d’un gisement.
  7. 7
    Action d’abattre un navire, c’est-à-dire de le mettre sur le côté pour le réparer.
  8. 8
    À certains jeux, action d’abattre, de poser et dévoiler ses cartes sur la table ou le plateau de jeu.
  9. 9
    Sévère correction.
  10. 10
    Vigueur, entrain.
  11. 11
    Forme de prostitution qui consiste à réaliser un grand nombre de passes chaque jour.
  12. 12
    Réprimande de patron à ouvrier.
  13. 13
    Modelage consistant à riper les gradins à l’outil.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: aabttage,abatage,abatatge,abattaeg,abattagge,abattgae,abbattage,abtatage,baattage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for abattage

Misspelling Variants of "abattage"

aabttage8abatage7abatatge8abattaeg8abattagge9abattgae8abbattage9abtatage8
Misspelling Variants of "abattage"

Frequency rank: #16,791 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "abattage"?
"abattage" is spelled A-B-A-T-T-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ba.taʒ\.
What does "abattage" mean?
As a noun, "abattage" means: Action d’abattre, de faire tomber les bois qui sont sur pied.
What words are commonly confused with "abattage"?
"abattage" is commonly confused with "abattre", "abattue", "avantage". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "abattage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "abattage" is \a.ba.taʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "abattage" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.