abstrait
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,187
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
abstrait is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui n’est pas concret, qui n'est pas réel ou qui relève de l’abstraction. Pronounced \ap.stʁɛ\. Often confused with attrait and assurait.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abstrait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ap.stʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,187 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for abstrait is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ap.stʁɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #14,187 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 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 abstrait, with forms such as "abbstrait", "absrtait", and "absstrait". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "attrait", "assurait", "abstraite", 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 abstrait, spelled A-B-S-T-R-A-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui n’est pas concret, qui n'est pas réel ou qui relève de l’abstraction.
- 2Abstrait d’une ou plusieurs collections d’objets, soit imaginées soit concrètes, en parlant d’une qualité ou d’un concept considéré tout seul, séparé de son origine.
- 3Se dit d’un art, par opposition à figuratif, qui ne représente rien existant dans le monde connu.
- 4Qui est difficile à saisir, à pénétrer.
- 5Nom signifiant une idée abstraite.
- 6Dans certains langages, se dit d’une classe qui n’est que partiellement définie.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abbstrait,absrtait,absstrait,abstarit,abstraitt,abstrati,abstriat,abstrrait,absttrait,abtsrait,asbtrait,bastrait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for abstrait
Misspelling Variants of "abstrait"
Frequency rank: #14,187 in French
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