Aqaba
\a.ka.ba\
The verdict
“Aqaba” is uncommon French (frequency #77,230 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,230
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville de l’extrême sud de la Jordanie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aqaba · Aqaba · French
Aqaba · rank #77,230 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,230
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH apprécieraient
Nearest frequency peer: apprécieraient (-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 « Aqaba »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- antichars
antichars
22,775 corpus weight
- anticlérica…
anticléricale
22,774 corpus weight
- apprécierai…
apprécieraient
22,772 corpus weight
- Aqaba
Aqaba
22,771 corpus weight
- architects
architects
22,769 corpus weight
- argumentatif
argumentatif
22,767 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Aqaba » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Aqaba |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \a.ka.ba\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #77,230 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Aqaba » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Aqaba is uncommon French at frequency #77,230 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \a.ka.ba\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville de l’extrême sud de la Jordanie.".
Aqaba doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Aqaba, spelled A-Q-A-B-A.
Definition
- 1Ville de l’extrême sud de la Jordanie.
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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