abbaye

\a.be.i\

/\a.be.i\/ noun

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The verdict

“abbaye” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,418. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#5,418
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Monastère d’hommes, qui a pour supérieur un abbé, ou de femmes, qui a pour supérieure une abbesse.

Corpus desk

Index FR-abbaye · abbaye · French

abbaye · rank #5,418 · 6 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #5,418
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH étudiante

Nearest frequency peer: étudiante (-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 « abbaye »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « abbaye » 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).

abbaye vs abbé
50% similar
abbaye vs Abby
50% similar
abbaye vs abbey
67% similar

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

Key facts for abbaye
PropertyValue
Headwordabbaye
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.be.i\
Letters6
Frequency rank#5,418
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « abbaye »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).abbayese 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 « étudiante » (#5,417), « adieu » (#5,419), « étages » (#5,416). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « abbaye » est au #5,418. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around abbaye (IPA \a.be.i\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,418 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for abbaye, with forms such as "ababye", "abaye", and "abbaey". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "abbé", "Abby", "abbey", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is abbaye, spelled A-B-B-A-Y-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Monastère d’hommes, qui a pour supérieur un abbé, ou de femmes, qui a pour supérieure une abbesse.
  2. 2
    Bénéfice attaché au titre d’abbé.
  3. 3
    Les bâtiments du monastère.
  4. 4
    Société de tir ^([1]), et par extension fête organisée par une société de tir.
  5. 5
    Confrérie, corporation laïque.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Ah ! c’est une riche abbaye ; on y fait bonne chère, et ils boivent les meilleurs vins, ces bons pères de Jorvaulx.
  2. Les abbayes et les monastères, étaient à cette époque, « cavernes de voleurs, lieux de dissolution » ; les abus devenaient tellement criants, les désordres prenaient des proportions si inquiétantes, qu’à tout prix il fallait y mettre un terme […].

Synonyms

couventmonastère

This word in other languages

abbey(English)abadía(Español)Abtei(Deutsch)abadia(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ababye
  • abaye
  • abbaey
  • abbayye
  • abbyae
  • babaye

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of abbaye - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ababye2abaye1abbaey2abbayye1abbyae2babaye2
Edit distance from "abbaye"

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 "abbaye"?
"abbaye" is spelled A-B-B-A-Y-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.be.i\.
What does "abbaye" mean?
As a noun, "abbaye" means: Monastère d’hommes, qui a pour supérieur un abbé, ou de femmes, qui a pour supérieure une abbesse.
What words are commonly confused with "abbaye"?
"abbaye" is commonly confused with "abbé", "Abby", "abbey". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "abbaye"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "abbaye" is \a.be.i\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "abbaye" come from?
"abbaye" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

étages#5,416breton#5,428traits#5,408soyons#5,403

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

Brian6 variantspouce6 variantshigh6 variantshong6 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list