abri
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,118
in French word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
abri is aFrenchnoun. It means: Lieu où on peut se mettre à couvert, se protéger des intempéries ou d'un danger. Pronounced \a.bʁi\. It ranks #3,118 in French word frequency. Often confused with air and Art.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abri |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.bʁi\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #3,118 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for abri is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.bʁi\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,118 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for abri, with forms such as "abbri", "abir", and "abrri". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "air", "Art", "ami", 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 abri, spelled A-B-R-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lieu où on peut se mettre à couvert, se protéger des intempéries ou d'un danger.
- 2Construction équipée d’un toit qui protège les utilisateurs de transports en commun, le matériel sensible…
- 3Ce qui préserve de l’adversité.
- 4Tout ce qui sert à garantir, soit de l’action désastreuse des vents, soit de la trop grande ardeur du soleil, soit du gel.
- 5Installation destinée à protéger des projectiles ennemis.
- 6Enceinte en forme de caissette montée sur socle, exposée au nord, et contenant divers appareils de mesure.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abbri,abir,abrri,arbi
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for abri
Misspelling Variants of "abri"
Frequency rank: #3,118 in French
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