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arab

UK /ˈæɹəb/noun

arab is spelled A-R-A-B: 4 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 25 times per million words in written English, the 3,683rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, arab means “billion (sense 1); 1,000,000,000; or with Indian digit grouping, 1,00,00,00,000” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of arab is arabs.

How many letters and syllables are in arab?

Letters4: A-R-A-B
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing25 times per million words; the 3,683rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is arab?

Arab appears 25 times per million words in written English, the 3,683rd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce arab?

  • UK /ˈæɹəb/
  • British /ˈaɹəb/
  • /ˈæɹəb/

Arab has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-Arab.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with arab?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as arab from its last stressed vowel (/æɹəb/, British pronunciation):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: abra, bara, abar.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of arab

  • arabs plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does arab mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Indiararebillion (sense 1); 1,000,000,000; or with Indian digit grouping, 1,00,00,00,000.

adjective

as Arab
  1. 1

    Of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations.

noun

as Arab
  1. 1

    A member of the Semitic ethnic group native to the Arabian Peninsula.

  2. 2

    A person from the Middle East and North Africa, whose mother tongue is Arabic.

  3. 3

    An Arabian horse.

  4. 4

    archaicA street Arab.

    a. 1892, Charles Spurgeon, a sermon You Christian people often see the little gutter children – the poor little arabs in the street – and you feel much pity for them, as well you may.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Arab in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frencharabe (of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations), Arabe (person from Arabia)
Germanarabisch, Araber- (of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations), Araber, Araberin (person from Arabia)
Portugueseárabe (of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations)
Spanishárabe (of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does arab come from?

Borrowed from Hindi अरब (arab).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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