attribut

/\a.tʁi.by\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#20,927

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

7

similar word pairs

attribut is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ce qui est propre et particulier à un être ou à une chose. Pronounced \a.tʁi.by\. Often confused with attributs and attribue.

Key facts for attribut
PropertyValue
Headwordattribut
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.tʁi.by\
Letters8
Frequency rank#20,927
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of attribut in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for attribut is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for attribut, with forms such as "atribut", "atrtibut", and "attirbut". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "attributs", "attribue", "attribuer", 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 attribut, spelled A-T-T-R-I-B-U-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ce qui est propre et particulier à un être ou à une chose.
  2. 2
    Organes sexuels.
  3. 3
    Ce qui s’affirme ou se nie du sujet d’une proposition.
  4. 4
    Fonction 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]).
  5. 5
    En iconographie religieuse, mythologique ou symbolique, ce qui sert à caractériser un sujet, tel qu’un personnage, une science, une valeur morale, un événement.
  6. 6
    Informations qui décrivent les propriétés associées aux fichiers, dans le contexte d’un système de fichiers.
  7. 7
    Variable 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.
  8. 8
    Entités qui définissent les propriétés d’un item. Ces entités consistent en un nom (ou clef) et en une valeur.
  9. 9
    Colonne d’une table de base de données relationnelle.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: atribut,atrtibut,attirbut,attrbiut,attribbut,attribtu,attributt,attriubt,attrribut,tatribut

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for attribut

Misspelling Variants of "attribut"

atribut7atrtibut8attirbut8attrbiut8attribbut9attribtu8attributt9attriubt8
Misspelling Variants of "attribut"

Frequency rank: #20,927 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "attribut"?
"attribut" is spelled A-T-T-R-I-B-U-T. The IPA pronunciation is \a.tʁi.by\.
What does "attribut" mean?
As a noun, "attribut" means: Ce qui est propre et particulier à un être ou à une chose.
What words are commonly confused with "attribut"?
"attribut" is commonly confused with "attributs", "attribue", "attribuer". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "attribut"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "attribut" is \a.tʁi.by\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "attribut" come from?
"attribut" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.