abeille
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,098
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
abeille is aFrenchnoun. It means: Abeille à miel ; insecte porte-aiguillon, social et domestiqué pour la fabrication du miel et de la cire d’abeille. Pronounced \a.bɛj\. Often confused with aille and Axelle.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abeille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.bɛj\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,098 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for abeille is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.bɛj\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,098 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for abeille, with forms such as "abbeille", "abeile", and "abeilel". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "aille", "Axelle", "Achille", 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 abeille, spelled A-B-E-I-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Abeille à miel ; insecte porte-aiguillon, social et domestiqué pour la fabrication du miel et de la cire d’abeille.
- 2Meuble représentant l’animal du même nom dans les armoiries.
- 3Représentation symbolique du pouvoir et du règne de Napoléon.
- 4Insecte hyménoptère ailé, appartenant à la super-famille des apoïdes, important pollinisateur qui se nourrit généralement de nectar.
- 5Écrivain dont on considère le style pur comme le miel.
- 6Bourdonnement sonore provoqué par des décharges partielles à l’approche d’un orage.
- 7Durant la Première Guerre mondiale, désigne une balle.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abbeille,abeile,abeilel,abelile,abielle,aebille,baeille
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "abeille"
Frequency rank: #13,098 in French
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