Which to use
“rabot” and “robot” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #44,123
- “rabot” frequency rank
- #4,615
- “robot” frequency rank
- 48738
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | rabot | robot |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | 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. | Machine de forme humaine. |
Where the eye mixes rabot and robot
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence.
Look-alike desk: rabot vs robot
A purely visual mix-up. rabot (\ʁa.bo\) and robot (\ʁɔ.bo\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by a single letter - a in “rabot” becomes o in “robot”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 48738, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
rabot is recorded at frequency rank #44,123, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʁa.bo\. robot is at rank #4,615, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ʁɔ.bo\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 48738, this pair ranks #176,413 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of rabot vs robot
Shared letters: bort. Private to "rabot": a. Private to "robot": -.
"rabot" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC · "robot" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "rabot" and "robot" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "rabot" or "robot" show up more?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "rabot" and "robot" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "rabot" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "robot" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #176,413 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "rabot" and "robot" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "rabot vs rant". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #176,413 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.