sabbat

\sa.ba\

/\sa.ba\/ noun

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The verdict

“sabbat” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,136. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#29,136
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dernier jour de la semaine, consacré à la prière et pendant lequel tout travail est interdit, chez les juifs et les chrétiens sabbataires.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sabbat · sabbat · French

sabbat · rank #29,136 · 7 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #29,136
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH réticent

Nearest frequency peer: réticent (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « sabbat »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « sabbat » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

sabbat vs sabot
67% similar
sabbat vs Salat
50% similar
sabbat vs shabbat
86% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for sabbat
PropertyValue
Headwordsabbat
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sa.ba\
Letters6
Frequency rank#29,136
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sabbat »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).sabbatse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « réticent » (#29,135), « Salazar » (#29,137), « résigner » (#29,134). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sabbat » est au #29,136. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around sabbat (IPA \sa.ba\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,136 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for sabbat, with forms such as "asbbat", "sababt", and "sabat". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "sabot", "Salat", "shabbat", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is sabbat, spelled S-A-B-B-A-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Dernier jour de la semaine, consacré à la prière et pendant lequel tout travail est interdit, chez les juifs et les chrétiens sabbataires.
  2. 2
    Assemblée nocturne que, suivant une opinion populaire, les sorciers tiennent pour adorer le diable.
  3. 3
    Grand bruit qui se fait avec désordre, avec confusion, tel que l’on s’imagine celui du sabbat des sorciers.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how sabbat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le jour du sabbat.
  2. Les juifs observent fort exactement le sabbat.

This word in other languages

sabbath(English)aquelarre(Español)Sabbat(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • asbbat
  • sababt
  • sabat
  • sabbatt
  • sabbta
  • sbabat
  • ssabbat

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sabbat - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

asbbat2sababt2sabat1sabbatt1sabbta2sbabat2ssabbat1
Edit distance from "sabbat"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sabbat"?
"sabbat" is spelled S-A-B-B-A-T. The IPA pronunciation is \sa.ba\.
What does "sabbat" mean?
As a noun, "sabbat" means: Dernier jour de la semaine, consacré à la prière et pendant lequel tout travail est interdit, chez les juifs et les chrétiens sabbataires.
What words are commonly confused with "sabbat"?
"sabbat" is commonly confused with "sabot", "Salat", "shabbat". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sabbat"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sabbat" is \sa.ba\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sabbat" come from?
"sabbat" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sabbat", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Selena#29,145roulez#29,126silent#29,148rivera#29,122

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

Shaun7 variantsridge7 variantsreyes7 variantsrenan7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list