sabbat

/\sa.ba\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#29,136

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

sabbat is aFrenchnoun. It means: Dernier jour de la semaine, consacré à la prière et pendant lequel tout travail est interdit, chez les juifs et les chrétiens sabbataires. Pronounced \sa.ba\. Often confused with sabot and Salat.

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)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for sabbat is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sa.ba\. Corpus data places it at rank #29,136 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 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 sabbat, with forms such as "asbbat", "sababt", and "sabat". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "sabot", "Salat", "shabbat", 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 sabbat, spelled S-A-B-B-A-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

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.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: asbbat,sababt,sabat,sabbatt,sabbta,sbabat,ssabbat

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sabbat

Misspelling Variants of "sabbat"

asbbat6sababt6sabat5sabbatt7sabbta6sbabat6ssabbat7
Misspelling Variants of "sabbat"

Frequency rank: #29,136 in French

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 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.