Arabie

\a.ʁa.bi\

/\a.ʁa.bi\/ name

The verdict

“Arabie” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,729. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#4,729
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
10
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Péninsule du Moyen-Orient.

Corpus desk

Index FR-arabie · Arabie · French

Arabie · rank #4,729 · 7 variants · 10 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #4,729
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH Anna

Nearest frequency peer: Anna (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Arabie »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Arabie » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Arabie vs arbre
50% similar
Arabie vs arabo
50% similar
Arabie vs Aramis
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Arabie
PropertyValue
HeadwordArabie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\a.ʁa.bi\
Letters6
Frequency rank#4,729
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Arabie »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Arabiese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Anna » (#4,728), « architecte » (#4,730), « assurances » (#4,731). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « Arabie » est au #4,729. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around Arabie (IPA \a.ʁa.bi\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #4,729 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Arabie, with forms such as "aarbie", "arabbie", and "arabei". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "arbre", "arabo", "Aramis", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Arabie, spelled A-R-A-B-I-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Péninsule du Moyen-Orient.
  2. 2
    Arabie saoudite.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Arabie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. À la naissance de l'islam, au VIIᵉ siècle, l'Arabie est une terre contrastée. Cette vaste péninsule, située à la jonction entre l'Asie et l'Afrique, est traversée de caravanes de commerce qui relient l'Inde à la Méditerranée. Le sud, tourné vers l'océan Indien, bénéficie d'un climat de moussons bénéfique aux cultures.
  2. Il me fait d’abord un cours de géographie, et j’apprends que la terre est un disque dont l’Arabie occupe le centre.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aarbie
  • arabbie
  • arabei
  • araibe
  • arbaie
  • arrabie
  • raabie

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Arabie - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

aarbie2arabbie1arabei2araibe2arbaie2arrabie1raabie2
Edit distance from "Arabie"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Arabie"?
"Arabie" is spelled A-R-A-B-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ʁa.bi\.
What does "Arabie" mean?
As a proper noun, "Arabie" means: Péninsule du Moyen-Orient.
What words are commonly confused with "Arabie"?
"Arabie" is commonly confused with "arbre", "arabo", "Aramis". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Arabie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Arabie" is \a.ʁa.bi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Arabie" come from?
"Arabie" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Arabie", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list