abreuvoir
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#47,708
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
abreuvoir is aFrenchnoun. It means: Lieu où les chevaux et les bestiaux peuvent boire. Pronounced \a.bʁœ.vwaʁ\. Often confused with aurevoir and abreuver.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abreuvoir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.bʁœ.vwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #47,708 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for abreuvoir is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.bʁœ.vwaʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #47,708 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for abreuvoir, with forms such as "abbreuvoir", "aberuvoir", and "abreuovir". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "aurevoir", "abreuver", 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 abreuvoir, spelled A-B-R-E-U-V-O-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lieu où les chevaux et les bestiaux peuvent boire.
- 2Récipient de grande taille, en pierre, en ciment, en tôle, parfois en bois, qui une fois rempli d'eau sert aux bestiaux qui veulent boire.
- 3Machine où l’on peut s’abreuver ; fontaine dans les lieux publics (écoles, hôpitaux).
- 4Entaille verticale en V inversé, pratiquée dans la face de joint d’une pierre taillée qui permet de couler le coulis de mortier entre deux faces de joint et une meilleure accroche du mortier.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abbreuvoir,aberuvoir,abreuovir,abreuvior,abreuvoirr,abreuvori,abreuvvoir,abrevuoir,abrreuvoir,abruevoir,arbeuvoir,bareuvoir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "abreuvoir"
Frequency rank: #47,708 in French
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