albâtre
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#47,716
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
albâtre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Gypse d’une pâte homogène, d’un grain fin, demi-translucide, susceptible d’un beau poli, et qui présente quelquefois des veines colorées. Pronounced \al.bɑtʁ\. Often confused with arbitre and albatros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | albâtre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \al.bɑtʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #47,716 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for albâtre is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \al.bɑtʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #47,716 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for albâtre, with forms such as "ablâtre", "albatre", and "albbâtre". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "arbitre", "albatros", "abattre", 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 albâtre, spelled A-L-B-Â-T-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Gypse d’une pâte homogène, d’un grain fin, demi-translucide, susceptible d’un beau poli, et qui présente quelquefois des veines colorées.
- 2Blanc. — #FEFEFE
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ablâtre,albatre,albbâtre,albtâre,albârte,albâter,albâtrre,albâttre,allbâtre,alâbtre,labâtre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for albâtre
Misspelling Variants of "albâtre"
Frequency rank: #47,716 in French
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