rabot

/\ʁa.bo\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#44,123

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

rabot is aFrenchnoun. It means: Outil de menuisier, qui sert à aplanir, à unir la surface du bois et qui est formé d’une sorte de ciseau ajusté obliquement dans un cadre de bois qui laisse dépasser le tranchant. Pronounced \ʁa.bo\. Often confused with rat and rot.

Key facts for rabot
PropertyValue
Headwordrabot
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁa.bo\
Letters5
Frequency rank#44,123
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for rabot is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁa.bo\. Corpus data places it at rank #44,123 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 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 rabot, with forms such as "arbot", "rabbot", and "rabott". 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", "rot", "root", 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 rabot, spelled R-A-B-O-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Outil de menuisier, qui sert à aplanir, à unir la surface du bois et qui est formé d’une sorte de ciseau ajusté obliquement dans un cadre de bois qui laisse dépasser le tranchant.
  2. 2
    Outil de menuisier du même usage que le précédent, mais constitué d'un cylindre qui tourne à grande vitesse dans lequel sont fixées deux lames tranchantes. Il en existe des modèles à main et des modèles fixes.
  3. 3
    Corriger, fignoler, terminer un ouvrage le plus souvent littéraire (texte, poème, roman, etc…)
  4. 4
    Outil dont on se sert pour aplanir et polir les métaux ou pour y faire des filets et des moulures.
  5. 5
    Outil employé par les clicheurs pour dresser les pages de clichés utilisées lors de l'impression de documents.
  6. 6
    Outil servant à polir le marbre ou les miroirs.
  7. 7
    Outil utilisé pour couper les poils indésirables et peluches lors des opérations de tissage effectuées manuellement.
  8. 8
    Outil semblable à une houe à très long manche, qui sert à remuer la chaux, le mortier ou les grains ou encore pour aplanir la surface d’un terrain.
  9. 9
    Appareil utilisé dans les mines de charbon pour abattre et charger les blocs.
  10. 10
    Nom donné à certaines pierres dures utilisées pour réaliser des pavages.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: arbot,rabbot,rabott,rabto,raobt,rbaot,rrabot

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rabot

Misspelling Variants of "rabot"

arbot5rabbot6rabott6rabto5raobt5rbaot5rrabot6
Misspelling Variants of "rabot"

Frequency rank: #44,123 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rabot"?
"rabot" is spelled R-A-B-O-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁa.bo\.
What does "rabot" mean?
As a noun, "rabot" means: Outil de menuisier, qui sert à aplanir, à unir la surface du bois et qui est formé d’une sorte de ciseau ajusté obliquement dans un cadre de bois qui laisse dépasser le tranchant.
What words are commonly confused with "rabot"?
"rabot" is commonly confused with "rat", "rot", "root". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "rabot"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rabot" is \ʁa.bo\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "rabot" come from?
"rabot" 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.