abad
\ˈɑː.bat\
The verdict
“abad” is uncommon French (frequency #68,769 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,769
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abbé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-abad · abad · French
abad · rank #68,769 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,769
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Aas
Nearest frequency peer: Aas (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « abad »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 4chan
4chan
31,235 corpus weight
- Aas
Aas
31,233 corpus weight
- abad
abad
31,232 corpus weight
- abattages
abattages
31,231 corpus weight
- abstenez
abstenez
31,230 corpus weight
- accompagnons
accompagnons
31,229 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « abad » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abad |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈɑː.bat\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #68,769 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « abad » en français
Rare enough to double-check
abad is uncommon French at frequency #68,769 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈɑː.bat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Abbé.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for abad in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is abad, spelled A-B-A-D.
Definition
- 1Abbé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how abad appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Re hir oa e zoudanenn goulskoude, rak aon a zeblante kaout an abad da vale warnezi.
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.
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