abattoir
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#16,527
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
abattoir is aFrenchnoun. It means: Bâtiment où l’on tue les bestiaux pour les boucheries. Pronounced \a.ba.twaʁ\. Often confused with abattoirs.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abattoir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ba.twaʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #16,527 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for abattoir is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ba.twaʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #16,527 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 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 abattoir, with forms such as "aabttoir", "abatoir", and "abatotir". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "abattoirs", 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 abattoir, spelled A-B-A-T-T-O-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bâtiment où l’on tue les bestiaux pour les boucheries.
- 2Guillotine.
- 3Lieu où la santé, la liberté ou la vie est menacée (tribunal, cachot).
- 4Lieu de mort brutale, de boucherie, de massacre systématique.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aabttoir,abatoir,abatotir,abattior,abattoirr,abattori,abbattoir,abtatoir,baattoir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for abattoir
Misspelling Variants of "abattoir"
Frequency rank: #16,527 in French
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