albus

adj

The verdict

“albus” is uncommon French (frequency #51,258 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#51,258
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Blanc.

Corpus desk

Index FR-albus · albus · French

albus · rank #51,258 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #51,258
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH airain

Nearest frequency peer: airain (-2 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 « albus »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « albus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for albus
PropertyValue
Headwordalbus
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
Letters5
Frequency rank#51,258
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « albus » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).albustombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « airain » (#51,256), « allumes » (#51,260), « aiguise » (#51,255). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « albus » est au #51,258. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

albus is uncommon French at frequency #51,258 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.

Zero misspellings are on record for albus in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, 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 is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is albus, spelled A-L-B-U-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Blanc.
  2. 2
    Pâle, blême, effrayé, pâli.
  3. 3
    Pur, serein, clair, limpide.
  4. 4
    Heureux, favorable, propice.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how albus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. albus an ater sit, nescio.
  2. albus calculus.

Synonyms

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "albus"?
"albus" is spelled A-L-B-U-S.
What does "albus" mean?
As an adjective, "albus" means: Blanc.
What language does "albus" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "albus", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list