Abuja
\a.bu.dʒa\
The verdict
“Abuja” is uncommon French (frequency #55,709 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,709
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Capitale du Nigeria (depuis 1991).
Corpus desk
Index FR-abuja · Abuja · French
Abuja · rank #55,709 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,709
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH absolute
Nearest frequency peer: absolute (-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 « Abuja »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- abbesses
abbesses
44,295 corpus weight
- absolute
absolute
44,293 corpus weight
- Abuja
Abuja
44,292 corpus weight
- Acad
Acad
44,290 corpus weight
- acceptions
acceptions
44,289 corpus weight
- accroupie
accroupie
44,288 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Abuja » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Abuja |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \a.bu.dʒa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #55,709 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Abuja » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Abuja is uncommon French at frequency #55,709 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \a.bu.dʒa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Capitale du Nigeria (depuis 1991).".
Zero misspellings are on record for Abuja in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented 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 Abuja, spelled A-B-U-J-A.
Definition
- 1Capitale du Nigeria (depuis 1991).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Abuja appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Toujours est-il qu’il meurt le 8 juin 1998 dans le palais présidentiel d’Abuja, la capitale. — (Mikal Hem, Et si je devenais dictateur, traduit du norvégien par Jean-Baptiste Coursaud, Gaïa, 2017, page 217)
À l’issue du sommet d’Abuja au Nigeria, où elle s’est réunie jeudi, la Cedeao n’a pas donné de date butoir aux putschistes pour libérer le Président nigérien Mohammed Bazoum, prisonnier depuis le 26 juillet.
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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