abreuver

\a.bʁœ.ve\

/\a.bʁœ.ve\/ verb

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The verdict

“abreuver” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,838. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#44,838
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire boire (un animal, particulièrement un cheval).

Corpus desk

Index FR-abreuver · abreuver · French

abreuver · rank #44,838 · 11 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #44,838
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH acclamation

Nearest frequency peer: acclamation (+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 « abreuver »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « abreuver » 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).

abreuver vs abreuvoir
78% similar
abreuver vs abréger
63% similar

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

Key facts for abreuver
PropertyValue
Headwordabreuver
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.bʁœ.ve\
Letters8
Frequency rank#44,838
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « abreuver »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).abreuverse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « acclamation » (#44,839), « accumulant » (#44,840), « actionne » (#44,841). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « abreuver » est au #44,838. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around abreuver (IPA \a.bʁœ.ve\), averb. Corpus frequency is #44,838 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for abreuver, with forms such as "abbreuver", "aberuver", and "abreuevr". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "abreuvoir", "abréger", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is abreuver, spelled A-B-R-E-U-V-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Faire boire (un animal, particulièrement un cheval).
  2. 2
    Arroser (une plante, une terre).
  3. 3
    Arroser, Imbiber, en profondeur.
  4. 4
    Donner beaucoup (de qqch) à (qqn), ou adresser, particulièrement des paroles, en grande quantité.
  5. 5
    Être saturé de quelque chose.
  6. 6
    Mettre sur un fond poreux une couche d’huile, d’encollage, de couleur ou de vernis, pour en boucher les pores et en rendre la surface unie.
  7. 7
    Remplir (un tonneau) d'eau pour le faire gonfler afin de le rendre étanche.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Abreuvez ces chevaux.
  2. Cet éleveur est un ami de l’environnement : il se vante de produire lui-même une partie de la nourriture de ses animaux, de forer lui-même le sol pour les abreuver, d’être autosuffisant en paille, de mettre un filtre pour le fuel et de fabriquer plein d’électricité grâce à des panneaux photovoltaïques.

Synonyms

accablercomblersoûler

Antonyms

assoifferpriver

This word in other languages

water(English)abrevar(Español)wässern(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • abbreuver
  • aberuver
  • abreuevr
  • abreuverr
  • abreuvre
  • abreuvver
  • abrevuer
  • abrreuver
  • abruever
  • arbeuver
  • bareuver

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of abreuver - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

abbreuver1aberuver2abreuevr2abreuverr1abreuvre2abreuvver1abrevuer2abrreuver1
Edit distance from "abreuver"

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 "abreuver"?
"abreuver" is spelled A-B-R-E-U-V-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \a.bʁœ.ve\.
What does "abreuver" mean?
As a verb, "abreuver" means: Faire boire (un animal, particulièrement un cheval).
What words are commonly confused with "abreuver"?
"abreuver" is commonly confused with "abreuvoir", "abréger". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "abreuver"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "abreuver" is \a.bʁœ.ve\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "abreuver" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

actionne#44,841activity#44,842écoutées#44,822annoncez#44,855

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list