arbi
\aʁ.bi\
The verdict
“arbi” is uncommon French (frequency #83,596 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,596
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arabe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arbi · arbi · French
arbi · rank #83,596 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,596
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Ararat
Nearest frequency peer: Ararat (-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 « arbi »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- apprêtes
apprêtes
16,408 corpus weight
- appuierait
appuierait
16,407 corpus weight
- Ararat
Ararat
16,406 corpus weight
- arbi
arbi
16,405 corpus weight
- arboricole
arboricole
16,404 corpus weight
- architecton…
architectonique
16,403 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « arbi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arbi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.bi\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #83,596 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « arbi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
arbi is uncommon French at frequency #83,596 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \aʁ.bi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for arbi in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is arbi, spelled A-R-B-I.
Definition
- 1Arabe.
- 2Langue arabe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how arbi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
du Gourguillon roide et pointant vers Fourvière à la place du pont, carrefour populeux des arbis, des Marseillais, des franchicots et des racailles étrangères…
— Il fait jour, l’arbi, tu peux les mettre, lança une voix enrouée de jeune coq.
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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