afrobeat
\a.fʁo.bit\
The verdict
“afrobeat” is uncommon French (frequency #96,570 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,570
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mélange de musique traditionnelle nigériane, de jazz, de highlife, de funk, et de chant accompagné de percussions et de styles vocaux, popularisé en Afrique dans les années 1970.
Corpus desk
Index FR-afrobeat · afrobeat · French
afrobeat · rank #96,570 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,570
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH affuble
Nearest frequency peer: affuble (-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 « afrobeat »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- affluences
affluences
3,434 corpus weight
- affronta
affronta
3,433 corpus weight
- affuble
affuble
3,432 corpus weight
- afrobeat
afrobeat
3,431 corpus weight
- aggressive
aggressive
3,430 corpus weight
- agrippée
agrippée
3,429 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « afrobeat » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | afrobeat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.fʁo.bit\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #96,570 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « afrobeat » en français
Rare enough to double-check
afrobeat is uncommon French at frequency #96,570 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.fʁo.bit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mélange de musique traditionnelle nigériane, de jazz, de highlife, de funk, et de chant accompagné de percussions et de styles vocaux, popularisé en Afrique dans les années 1970.".
No misspelling variants are generated for afrobeat in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is afrobeat, spelled A-F-R-O-B-E-A-T.
Definition
- 1Mélange de musique traditionnelle nigériane, de jazz, de highlife, de funk, et de chant accompagné de percussions et de styles vocaux, popularisé en Afrique dans les années 1970.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how afrobeat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comme le rock, le reggae ou le hip-hop, l’afrobeat, expression musicale de la révolte contre l’injustice, est aussi un style de vie, une façon de résister aux difficultés quotidiennes.
On écoutait de la musique toute la journée et je découvrais de nouveaux styles comme le highlife, l’afrobeat, le funk, la soul, la rumba.
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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