arba
\ˈar.ba\
The verdict
“arba” is uncommon French (frequency #74,561 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,561
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arboricole, d’arbre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arba · arba · French
arba · rank #74,561 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,561
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH arabophones
Nearest frequency peer: arabophones (-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 « arba »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- approvision…
approvisionnés
25,443 corpus weight
- apprêtez
apprêtez
25,442 corpus weight
- arabophones
arabophones
25,441 corpus weight
- arba
arba
25,440 corpus weight
- arraches
arraches
25,438 corpus weight
- arrêterez
arrêterez
25,437 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « arba » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arba |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈar.ba\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #74,561 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « arba » en français
Rare enough to double-check
arba is uncommon French at frequency #74,561 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈar.ba\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Arboricole, d’arbre.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for arba, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is arba, spelled A-R-B-A.
Definition
- 1Arboricole, d’arbre.
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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