Arabic
\ˈæɹ.ə.bɪk\
The verdict
“Arabic” is uncommon French (frequency #72,919 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,919
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arabique, arabe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arabic · Arabic · French
Arabic · rank #72,919 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,919
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH applaudissant
Nearest frequency peer: applaudissant (-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 « Arabic »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Antonioni
Antonioni
27,085 corpus weight
- aplaties
aplaties
27,084 corpus weight
- applaudissa…
applaudissant
27,083 corpus weight
- Arabic
Arabic
27,082 corpus weight
- aras
aras
27,081 corpus weight
- ardennaises
ardennaises
27,080 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Arabic » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Arabic |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈæɹ.ə.bɪk\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #72,919 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Arabic » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Arabic is uncommon French at frequency #72,919 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈæɹ.ə.bɪk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Arabique, arabe.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Arabic in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Arabic, spelled A-R-A-B-I-C.
Definition
- 1Arabique, arabe.
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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