attribut
\a.tʁi.by\
The verdict
“attribut” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #20,927 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #20,927
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ce qui est propre et particulier à un être ou à une chose.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | attribut |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.tʁi.by\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #20,927 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “attribut” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for attribut is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.tʁi.by\. Corpus data places it at rank #20,927 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for attribut, with forms such as "atribut", "atrtibut", and "attirbut". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "attributs", "attribue", "attribuer", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is attribut, spelled A-T-T-R-I-B-U-T.
Definition
- 1Ce qui est propre et particulier à un être ou à une chose.
- 2Organes sexuels.
- 3Ce qui s’affirme ou se nie du sujet d’une proposition.
- 4Fonction syntaxique d’un mot (adjectif qualificatif ou déterminant), ou d’un groupe de mots (proposition subordonnée conjonctive, proposition subordonnée relative, ou groupe prépositionnel), qui exprime une qualité ou une propriété du sujet ou de l’objet (complément d’objet) au moyen d’un verbe dit attributif ^([1]).
- 5En iconographie religieuse, mythologique ou symbolique, ce qui sert à caractériser un sujet, tel qu’un personnage, une science, une valeur morale, un événement.
- 6Informations qui décrivent les propriétés associées aux fichiers, dans le contexte d’un système de fichiers.
- 7Variable associée à un objet, une instance d’une classe, ou encore une classe, commune à toutes ses instances dans le cas d'un attribut statique.
- 8Entités qui définissent les propriétés d’un item. Ces entités consistent en un nom (ou clef) et en une valeur.
- 9Colonne d’une table de base de données relationnelle.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: atribut,atrtibut,attirbut,attrbiut,attribbut,attribtu,attributt,attriubt,attrribut,tatribut
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of attribut - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
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Using “attribut”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-T-T-R-I-B-U-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \a.tʁi.by\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “attributs” - see the side-by-side comparison. attribut vs attributs
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.