rabbit

/\ˈɹæb.ɪt\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#31,668

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

10

similar word pairs

rabbit is aFrenchnoun. It means: Lapin, nom générique de plusieurs genres de lagomorphes. Pronounced \ˈɹæb.ɪt\. Often confused with ravit and rabin.

Key facts for rabbit
PropertyValue
Headwordrabbit
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ˈɹæb.ɪt\
Letters6
Frequency rank#31,668
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for rabbit is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈɹæb.ɪt\. Corpus data places it at rank #31,668 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Lapin, nom générique de plusieurs genres de lagomorphes.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for rabbit, with forms such as "arbbit", "rabbitt", and "rabbti". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "ravit", "rabin", "rabot", 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 rabbit, spelled R-A-B-B-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Lapin, nom générique de plusieurs genres de lagomorphes.

Synonyms

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: arbbit,rabbitt,rabbti,rabibt,rabit,rbabit,rrabbit

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rabbit

Misspelling Variants of "rabbit"

arbbit6rabbitt7rabbti6rabibt6rabit5rbabit6rrabbit7
Misspelling Variants of "rabbit"

Frequency rank: #31,668 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rabbit"?
"rabbit" is spelled R-A-B-B-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈɹæb.ɪt\.
What does "rabbit" mean?
As a noun, "rabbit" means: Lapin, nom générique de plusieurs genres de lagomorphes.
What words are commonly confused with "rabbit"?
"rabbit" is commonly confused with "ravit", "rabin", "rabot". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "rabbit"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rabbit" is \ˈɹæb.ɪt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "rabbit" come from?
"rabbit" 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.