abattement

\a.bat.mɑ̃\

/\a.bat.mɑ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“abattement” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,034. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#20,034
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d'abattre.

Corpus desk

Index FR-abattement · abattement · French

abattement · rank #20,034 · 13 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #20,034
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH abandonnant

Nearest frequency peer: abandonnant (-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 « abattement »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « abattement » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

abattement vs abattent
80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for abattement
PropertyValue
Headwordabattement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.bat.mɑ̃\
Letters10
Frequency rank#20,034
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « abattement »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).abattementse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « abandonnant » (#20,033), « aboli » (#20,035), « abominable » (#20,036). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « abattement » est au #20,034. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around abattement (IPA \a.bat.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,034 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for abattement, with forms such as "aabttement", "abatement", and "abatetment". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "abattent", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is abattement, spelled A-B-A-T-T-E-M-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action d'abattre.
  2. 2
    Placage au sol des particules en suspension dans l’air.
  3. 3
    Diminution rapide, d’une durée plus ou moins longue, des forces physiques et des fonctions psychiques.
  4. 4
    Déduction à opérer par l’administration, en raison des charges de famille supportées par le contribuable, sur le chiffre des déclarations des revenus nets qui servent de base au calcul de l’impôt général sur le revenu et des divers impôts cédulaires.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how abattement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Je voudrais pouvoir tout empêcher : aussi bien l´abattement des grands arbres dans ma ville de Saintes que les feux de forêt en Amazonie.
  2. Les laveurs à pulvérisation sont très utilisés pour le traitement des gaz mais du point de vue du dépoussiérage, ils présentent un abattement assez faible des particules.

This word in other languages

despondency(English)abatimiento(Español)Abgeschlagenheit(Deutsch)abatimento(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aabttement
  • abatement
  • abatetment
  • abatteemnt
  • abattemennt
  • abattementt
  • abattemetn
  • abattemment
  • abattemnet
  • abattmeent
  • abbattement
  • abtatement
  • baattement

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of abattement - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

aabttement2abatement1abatetment2abatteemnt2abattemennt1abattementt1abattemetn2abattemment1
Edit distance from "abattement"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "abattement"?
"abattement" is spelled A-B-A-T-T-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \a.bat.mɑ̃\.
What does "abattement" mean?
As a noun, "abattement" means: Action d'abattre.
What words are commonly confused with "abattement"?
"abattement" is commonly confused with "abattent". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "abattement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "abattement" is \a.bat.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "abattement" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "abattement", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

abominable#20,036abrogation#20,037agrégation#20,040Wellington#20,022

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

treizième13 variantsblanchir13 variantsbouddhiste13 variantsspontané13 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list