arabe

/\a.ʁab\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,898

in French word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

arabe is aFrenchnoun. It means: Langue sémitique parlée autrefois par les bédouins d’Arabie et, en particulier, par le prophète Mahomet. Pronounced \a.ʁab\. It ranks #1,898 in French word frequency. Often confused with are and aube.

Key facts for arabe
PropertyValue
Headwordarabe
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.ʁab\
Letters5
Frequency rank#1,898
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of arabe in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for arabe is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ʁab\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,898 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for arabe, with forms such as "aarbe", "arabbe", and "araeb". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "are", "aube", "armé", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is arabe, spelled A-R-A-B-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Langue sémitique parlée autrefois par les bédouins d’Arabie et, en particulier, par le prophète Mahomet.
  2. 2
    Dialecte local de cette langue parlé au Proche-Orient et dans le nord de l’Afrique.
  3. 3
    Langue ou chose incompréhensible.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: aarbe,arabbe,araeb,arbae,arrabe,raabe

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for arabe

Misspelling Variants of "arabe"

aarbe5arabbe6araeb5arbae5arrabe6raabe5
Misspelling Variants of "arabe"

Frequency rank: #1,898 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "arabe"?
"arabe" is spelled A-R-A-B-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ʁab\.
What does "arabe" mean?
As a noun, "arabe" means: Langue sémitique parlée autrefois par les bédouins d’Arabie et, en particulier, par le prophète Mahomet.
What words are commonly confused with "arabe"?
"arabe" is commonly confused with "are", "aube", "armé". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "arabe"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "arabe" is \a.ʁab\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "arabe" come from?
"arabe" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.