arabophone
\a.ʁa.bɔ.fɔn\
The verdict
“arabophone” is uncommon French (frequency #69,590 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,590
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui parle habituellement l'arabe ; dont l'arabe est la langue véhiculaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arabophone · arabophone · French
arabophone · rank #69,590 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,590
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Arabian
Nearest frequency peer: Arabian (-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 « arabophone »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- appauvrie
appauvrie
30,414 corpus weight
- apprivoisée
apprivoisée
30,413 corpus weight
- Arabian
Arabian
30,412 corpus weight
- arabophone
arabophone
30,411 corpus weight
- arca
arca
30,410 corpus weight
- Arlésienne
Arlésienne
30,408 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « arabophone » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arabophone |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.ʁa.bɔ.fɔn\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #69,590 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « arabophone » en français
Rare enough to double-check
arabophone is uncommon French at frequency #69,590 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.ʁa.bɔ.fɔn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui parle habituellement l'arabe ; dont l'arabe est la langue véhiculaire.".
arabophone has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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. The correct French form is arabophone, spelled A-R-A-B-O-P-H-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1Qui parle habituellement l'arabe ; dont l'arabe est la langue véhiculaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how arabophone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Égyptiens, à la différence des autres communautés arabophones, à la fin de la Grande Guerre, avaient un sentiment plus fort de la continuité avec le passé […], et pratiquement plus d'un siècle d'autonomie vis-à-vis du Commandeur des croyants d’Istanbul.
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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