abid
\a.bid\
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
- abaissées
abaissées
21,909 corpus weight
- abid
abid
21,908 corpus weight
- abjection
abjection
21,907 corpus weight
- accostent
accostent
21,905 corpus weight
- Achères
Achères
21,904 corpus weight
- acne
acne
21,903 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « abid » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abid |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.bid\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #78,093 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « abid » en français
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
- 1Esclave affranchi enrôlé dans l'armée.
- 2Désigne les Noirs dans les pays du Maghreb.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how abid appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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.
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