ACAB
\a.kab\
The verdict
“ACAB” is uncommon French (frequency #69,566 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a phrase. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,566
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - « Tous les flics sont des salauds », slogan anti-police.
Corpus desk
Index FR-acab · ACAB · French
ACAB · rank #69,566 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,566
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH abysse
Nearest frequency peer: abysse (-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 « ACAB »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- abrasifs
abrasifs
30,438 corpus weight
- abrupts
abrupts
30,437 corpus weight
- abysse
abysse
30,436 corpus weight
- ACAB
ACAB
30,435 corpus weight
- accéléra
accéléra
30,434 corpus weight
- additional
additional
30,433 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ACAB » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ACAB |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \a.kab\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #69,566 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ACAB » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ACAB is uncommon French at frequency #69,566 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aphrase, transcribed \a.kab\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "« Tous les flics sont des salauds », slogan anti-police.".
ACAB has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ACAB, spelled A-C-A-B.
Definition
- 1« Tous les flics sont des salauds », slogan anti-police.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ACAB appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au fil des jours, les murs de l’artère sont recouverts de représentations de martyrs, de slogans antiCSFA, de géants ACAB (All Cops Are Bastards) et de fresques en l’honneur de chaque groupe d’ultras.
Sur les murs de la capitale, chaque lendemain de défilé des « gilets jaunes », les services de la mairie s’affairent à effacer les tags « Tout le monde déteste la police » ou autre « ACAB » (acronyme de « All cops are bastards », « tous les flics sont des bâtards »).
Synonyms
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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