arabesque
\a.ʁa.bɛsk\
The verdict
“arabesque” is uncommon French (frequency #53,769 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,769
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arabe, qui est propre aux Arabes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arabesque · arabesque · French
arabesque · rank #53,769 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,769
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH apprécierais
Nearest frequency peer: apprécierais (-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 « arabesque »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Anson
Anson
46,236 corpus weight
- antalgiques
antalgiques
46,235 corpus weight
- aplanir
aplanir
46,234 corpus weight
- apprécierais
apprécierais
46,233 corpus weight
- arabesque
arabesque
46,232 corpus weight
- argumentée
argumentée
46,230 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « arabesque » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arabesque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.ʁa.bɛsk\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #53,769 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « arabesque » en français
Rare enough to double-check
arabesque is uncommon French at frequency #53,769 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.ʁa.bɛsk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Arabe, qui est propre aux Arabes.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for arabesque in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is arabesque, spelled A-R-A-B-E-S-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Arabe, qui est propre aux Arabes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how arabesque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle (Esther Stanhope) y créa artificiellement un jardin charmant à la mode des Turcs ; jardin de fleurs et de fruits, berceaux de vignes, kiosques enrichis de sculptures et de peintures arabesques.
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.
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