rabais
French, noun/ʁa.bɛ/
rabais is spelled R-A-B-A-I-S (6 letters) and appears 4.6 times per million words in written French, the 11,928th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rabais is a French masculine noun meaning “discount; reduction in price” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Acte par lequel un vendeur consent une diminution sur le prix d’un objet ou sur la rémunération d’un travail”.
What does rabais mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinediscount; reduction in price
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acte par lequel un vendeur consent une diminution sur le prix d’un objet ou sur la rémunération d’un travail. 2. Mode d’adjudication publique, suivant lequel les ouvrages, les travaux, les fournitures sont adjugés à celui des concurrents qui s’en est chargé au moindre prix. 3. De moindre valeur.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce rabais?
- /ʁa.bɛ/
- \ʁa.bɛ\
- [ʁa.bɛ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to rabais
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rabais in French?
rabais appears 4.6 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).