abattoir
\a.ba.twaʁ\
The verdict
“abattoir” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,527. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,527
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bâtiment où l’on tue les bestiaux pour les boucheries.
Corpus desk
Index FR-abattoir · abattoir · French
abattoir · rank #16,527 · 9 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #16,527
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH abandonnent
Nearest frequency peer: abandonnent (-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 « abattoir »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- évitera
évitera
83,477 corpus weight
- abandonnent
abandonnent
83,475 corpus weight
- abattoir
abattoir
83,474 corpus weight
- aboutisseme…
aboutissement
83,473 corpus weight
- absences
absences
83,472 corpus weight
- acceptées
acceptées
83,471 corpus weight
What this shows « abattoir » 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 | 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) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « abattoir »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around abattoir (IPA \a.ba.twaʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,527 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for abattoir, with forms such as "aabttoir", "abatoir", and "abatotir". 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, "abattoirs", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is abattoir, spelled A-B-A-T-T-O-I-R.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how abattoir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après l’abattage d’urgence, le cadavre dépouillé, éviscéré en en quartiers pourra être transporté à l’abattoir pour y être inspecté à condition qu’il soit accompagné de la totalité des viscères.
Dans son autobiographie, Henry Ford révèle que sa chaîne d’assemblage a été pensée et créée sur le modèle des abattoirs de Chicago dont l’efficacité lui faisait forte impression.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aabttoir
- abatoir
- abatotir
- abattior
- abattoirr
- abattori
- abbattoir
- abtatoir
- baattoir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of abattoir - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "abattoir", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).