Aruba
\a.ʁu.ba\
The verdict
“Aruba” is uncommon French (frequency #50,065 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,065
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Île de la mer des Caraïbes, proche du Venezuela.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aruba · Aruba · French
Aruba · rank #50,065 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,065
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH artistiquement
Nearest frequency peer: artistiquement (-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 « Aruba »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- apparts
apparts
49,939 corpus weight
- argan
argan
49,938 corpus weight
- artistiquem…
artistiquement
49,937 corpus weight
- Aruba
Aruba
49,936 corpus weight
- aryenne
aryenne
49,935 corpus weight
- assembleur
assembleur
49,934 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Aruba » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Aruba |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \a.ʁu.ba\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #50,065 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Aruba » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Aruba is uncommon French at frequency #50,065 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \a.ʁu.ba\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Aruba, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Aruba, spelled A-R-U-B-A.
Definition
- 1Île de la mer des Caraïbes, proche du Venezuela.
- 2État du Royaume des Pays-Bas (depuis sa séparation des Antilles néerlandaises en 1986).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Aruba appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Hollandais possèdent dans les Antilles les îles de Saint-Eustache et Saba, avec une partie de Saint-Martin, et sur la côte de Caracas, Curaçao, Bonair et Aruba.
Le bateau n'a pas été autorisé à s'arrêter à Curaçao et à Aruba, deux îles des Antilles néerlandaises.
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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