rabattent
\ʁa.bat\
The verdict
“rabattent” is uncommon French (frequency #70,145 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,145
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de rabattre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rabattent · rabattent · French
rabattent · rank #70,145 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,145
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rabâcher
Nearest frequency peer: rabâcher (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « rabattent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- péremptoires
péremptoires
29,860 corpus weight
- quéquette
quéquette
29,858 corpus weight
- rabattent
rabattent
29,856 corpus weight
- rabâcher
rabâcher
29,855 corpus weight
- Rached
Rached
29,854 corpus weight
- ralentisse
ralentisse
29,853 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rabattent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rabattent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁa.bat\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #70,145 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rabattent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rabattent is uncommon French at frequency #70,145 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁa.bat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for rabattent, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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. The correct French form is rabattent, spelled R-A-B-A-T-T-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de rabattre.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de rabattre.
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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