abattre

/\a.batʁ\/ verb

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#8,489

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

6

similar word pairs

abattre is aFrenchverb. It means: Mettre à bas ; jeter à terre ; faire tomber. Pronounced \a.batʁ\. It ranks #8,489 in French word frequency. Often confused with abattu and abattus.

Key facts for abattre
PropertyValue
Headwordabattre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.batʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#8,489
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for abattre is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.batʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,489 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 16 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for abattre, with forms such as "aabttre", "abatre", and "abatrte". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "abattu", "abattus", "abattue", 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 abattre, spelled A-B-A-T-T-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mettre à bas ; jeter à terre ; faire tomber.
  2. 2
    Démolir, casser une maison, un mur, un plancher, etc.
  3. 3
    Coucher un navire sur son flanc pour travailler à la carène ou à quelque autre partie qui est ordinairement submergée.
  4. 4
    Coucher un animal sur le flanc quand il doit subir quelque opération.
  5. 5
    Mettre une ou plusieurs de ses cartes sur la table pour les montrer.
  6. 6
    Récolter le charbon au moyen d’un outil.
  7. 7
    Expédier en peu de temps beaucoup de travail.
  8. 8
    Boire (une quantité réputée importante).
  9. 9
    Tuer un animal.
  10. 10
    Assassiner par arme à feu.
  11. 11
    Détruire un avion en vol.
  12. 12
    Affaiblir physiquement et moralement.
  13. 13
    Tomber brusquement.
  14. 14
    S’apaiser, en parlant du vent.
  15. 15
    Tomber ou se laisser tomber (sur quelqu’un ou quelque chose) en provoquant un dommage.
  16. 16
    Éloigner la proue d’un bateau du lit du vent, en faisant une abattée volontaire.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: aabttre,abatre,abatrte,abatter,abattrre,abbattre,abtatre,baattre

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for abattre

Misspelling Variants of "abattre"

aabttre7abatre6abatrte7abatter7abattrre8abbattre8abtatre7baattre7
Misspelling Variants of "abattre"

Frequency rank: #8,489 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "abattre"?
"abattre" is spelled A-B-A-T-T-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.batʁ\.
What does "abattre" mean?
As a verb, "abattre" means: Mettre à bas ; jeter à terre ; faire tomber.
What words are commonly confused with "abattre"?
"abattre" is commonly confused with "abattu", "abattus", "abattue". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "abattre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "abattre" is \a.batʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "abattre" 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.