abid

\a.bid\

/\a.bid\/ noun

The verdict

“abid” is uncommon French (frequency #78,093 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#78,093
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Esclave affranchi enrôlé dans l'armée.

Corpus desk

Index FR-abid · abid · French

abid · rank #78,093 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #78,093
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH abaissées

Nearest frequency peer: abaissées (-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 « abid »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « abid » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for abid
PropertyValue
Headwordabid
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.bid\
Letters4
Frequency rank#78,093
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « abid » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.abidtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « abaissées » (#78,092), « abjection » (#78,094), « accostent » (#78,096). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « abid » est au #78,093. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

abid is uncommon French at frequency #78,093 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.bid\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for abid, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is abid, spelled A-B-I-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    Esclave affranchi enrôlé dans l'armée.
  2. 2
    Désigne les Noirs dans les pays du Maghreb.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how abid appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Quelques corps spéciaux étaient composés d'hommes appartenant seulement à certaines tribus ou à certaines classes: les Zouaoua, les Douairs, les Zenati, en offraient des exemples ; des Nègres affranchis formaient les abids (serviteurs ou esclaves). Enfin, les kaïds étaient tenus de marcher avec les contingents de leur canton quand ils en recevaient l'ordre.
  2. De 1727 à 1735, c'est la dictature militaire. Les hommes de confiance de Moulay Ismail sont éliminés, les abids délaissent leurs postes pour se ruer dans les villes et profiter des cadeaux royaux, mais aussi pour tout saccager.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "abid"?
"abid" is spelled A-B-I-D. The IPA pronunciation is \a.bid\.
What does "abid" mean?
As a noun, "abid" means: Esclave affranchi enrôlé dans l'armée.
How do you pronounce "abid"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "abid" is \a.bid\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "abid" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "abid", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list