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kebele

noun

kebele is spelled K-E-B-E-L-E: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 79 million words in written English, the 282,993rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, kebele means “The smallest administrative unit of Ethiopia, contained within a woreda” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of kebele is kebeles.

How many letters and syllables are in kebele?

Letters6: K-E-B-E-L-E
In writingabout once in every 79 million words; the 282,993rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is kebele?

Kebele appears about once in every 79 million words in written English, the 282,993rd 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).

Forms of kebele

  • kebeles plural

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

What does kebele mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The smallest administrative unit of Ethiopia, contained within a woreda.

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

Where does kebele come from?

Borrowed from Amharic ቀበሌ (ḳäbäle, “neighbourhood”).

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

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