bemba
\bɛm.ba\
The verdict
“bemba” is uncommon French (frequency #53,156 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,156
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la langue bemba.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bemba · bemba · French
bemba · rank #53,156 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,156
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH basin
Nearest frequency peer: basin (-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 « bemba »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Barrault
Barrault
46,848 corpus weight
- barrot
barrot
46,847 corpus weight
- basin
basin
46,846 corpus weight
- bemba
bemba
46,845 corpus weight
- bend
bend
46,844 corpus weight
- beretta
beretta
46,843 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bemba » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bemba |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bɛm.ba\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #53,156 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bemba » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bemba is uncommon French at frequency #53,156 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bɛm.ba\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bemba, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 bemba, spelled B-E-M-B-A.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la langue bemba.
- 2Relatif aux Bembas.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).