rabat
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,389
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
rabat is aFrenchnoun. It means: Col, partie du vêtement rabattue vers le bas. Pronounced \ʁa.ba\. Often confused with rat and rama.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rabat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁa.ba\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #10,389 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rabat is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁa.ba\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,389 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for rabat, with forms such as "arbat", "raabt", and "rabatt". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rat", "rama", "raja", 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 rabat, spelled R-A-B-A-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Col, partie du vêtement rabattue vers le bas.
- 2Col de toile, garni ou non de dentelles, qui laissait le cou des hommes découvert.
- 3Col du costume ecclésiastique consistant en un morceau de toile noire divisé en deux portions oblongues, bordées de blanc, qui se rabattait sur le devant.
- 4Pièce de batiste, de dentelle, etc., qui fait office de cravate dans le costume officiel des magistrats, des avocats, des membres de l’université, etc.
- 5Action de rabattre le gibier.
- 6Pièce de plâtre mince couvrant la largeur du manteau d'une cheminée.
- 7Sable fin servant à polir le marbre.
- 8Action du polissage du marbre avec ce sable fin.
- 9Nom donné à la terre des plats non vernis dont la cuisson a été manquée.
- 10Partie souple d'un objet, repliable.
- 11Volet rabattable d'un objet.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: arbat,raabt,rabatt,rabbat,rabta,rbaat,rrabat
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rabat
Misspelling Variants of "rabat"
Frequency rank: #10,389 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter R in our French index: