abattre ses cartes
\a.batʁ se kaʁt\
The verdict
“abattre ses cartes” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Dévoiler son jeu, poser ses cartes sur la table.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abattre ses cartes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.batʁ se kaʁt\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “abattre ses cartes” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for abattre ses cartes is 18 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.batʁ se kaʁt\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for abattre ses cartes in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 ses cartes, spelled A-B-A-T-T-R-E- -S-E-S- -C-A-R-T-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dévoiler son jeu, poser ses cartes sur la table.
- 2Dévoiler son plan, ses intentions, ses projets.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is A-B-A-T-T-R-E- -S-E-S- -C-A-R-T-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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