abaya
\a.ba.ja\
The verdict
“abaya” is uncommon French (frequency #89,346 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,346
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Longue robe couvrante portée par certaines femmes du Moyen-Orient et des pays du Maghreb.
Corpus desk
Index FR-abaya · abaya · French
abaya · rank #89,346 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,346
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH 7th
Nearest frequency peer: 7th (-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 « abaya »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 7th
7th
10,656 corpus weight
- abaya
abaya
10,655 corpus weight
- abbadie
abbadie
10,654 corpus weight
- abreuvés
abreuvés
10,653 corpus weight
- abrogés
abrogés
10,652 corpus weight
- Absalom
Absalom
10,651 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « abaya » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abaya |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ba.ja\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #89,346 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « abaya » en français
Rare enough to double-check
abaya is uncommon French at frequency #89,346 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ba.ja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for abaya in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is abaya, spelled A-B-A-Y-A.
Definition
- 1Longue robe couvrante portée par certaines femmes du Moyen-Orient et des pays du Maghreb.
- 2Long vêtement porté par certains hommes, notamment au Liban.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how abaya appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils nous font quoi avec l’abaya ?
Les femmes non qataries ne sont pas tenues de porter l’abaya, une longue robe noire qui couvre la silhouette presque de la tête aux pieds, mais les touristes doivent s’assurer que les hauts couvrent leur ventre et leurs épaules, tandis que les jupes, les robes et les pantalons doivent cacher les genoux.
This word in other languages
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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