albus
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
- agrippe
agrippe
48,748 corpus weight
- aiguise
aiguise
48,746 corpus weight
- airain
airain
48,745 corpus weight
- albus
albus
48,743 corpus weight
- allumes
allumes
48,741 corpus weight
- AMAP
AMAP
48,740 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « albus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | albus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #51,258 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « albus » en français
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
- 1Blanc.
- 2Pâle, blême, effrayé, pâli.
- 3Pur, serein, clair, limpide.
- 4Heureux, favorable, propice.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how albus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
albus an ater sit, nescio.
albus calculus.
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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