ACAB
\a.kab\
The verdict
“ACAB” is uncommon French (frequency #69,566 among 424,905 “A” headwords), classed as a phrase. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,566
- frequency rank, French
- 424,905
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - « Tous les flics sont des salauds », slogan anti-police.
| 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) |
Where “ACAB” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
ACAB is uncommon French at frequency #69,566 among 424,905 “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.
Synonyms
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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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Using “ACAB”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-C-A-B - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.