abbé
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,973
in French word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
abbé is aFrenchnoun. It means: Moine supérieur d’une abbaye. Pronounced \a.be\. It ranks #3,973 in French word frequency. Often confused with ae and âge.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abbé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.be\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #3,973 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for abbé is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.be\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,973 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for abbé, with forms such as "abbe", "abé", and "abéb". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ae", "âge", "âme", 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 abbé, spelled A-B-B-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Moine supérieur d’une abbaye.
- 2Celui qui porte le costume ecclésiastique et remplit ou se prépare à remplir les fonctions sacerdotales.
- 3Tout homme qui portait l’habit ecclésiastique, sans remplir les fonctions sacerdotales.
- 4Président d’une confrérie agricole.
- 5Titre donné à un prêtre séculier dans l’Église catholique.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abbe,abé,abéb,babé
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for abbé
Misspelling Variants of "abbé"
Frequency rank: #3,973 in French
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