Aboukir
\a.bu.kiʁ\
The verdict
“Aboukir” is uncommon French (frequency #74,516 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,516
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Baie près d’Alexandrie en Égypte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aboukir · Aboukir · French
Aboukir · rank #74,516 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,516
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH abjurer
Nearest frequency peer: abjurer (-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 « Aboukir »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- abatte
abatte
25,487 corpus weight
- abjurer
abjurer
25,486 corpus weight
- Aboukir
Aboukir
25,485 corpus weight
- absolutiste
absolutiste
25,484 corpus weight
- abstenue
abstenue
25,483 corpus weight
- abîment
abîment
25,482 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Aboukir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Aboukir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \a.bu.kiʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #74,516 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Aboukir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Aboukir is uncommon French at frequency #74,516 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \a.bu.kiʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Aboukir, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Aboukir, spelled A-B-O-U-K-I-R.
Definition
- 1Baie près d’Alexandrie en Égypte.
- 2Mesra, commune de la wilaya de Mostaganem en Algérie.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).