Bessarabie
\bɛ.sa.ʁa.bi\
The verdict
“Bessarabie” is uncommon French (frequency #71,284 among 227,490 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,284
- frequency rank, French
- 227,490
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Région d’Europe qui correspond plus ou moins à l'actuelle Moldavie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bessarabie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bɛ.sa.ʁa.bi\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #71,284 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Bessarabie” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Bessarabie is uncommon French at frequency #71,284 among 227,490 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \bɛ.sa.ʁa.bi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Bessarabie has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Bessarabie, spelled B-E-S-S-A-R-A-B-I-E.
Definition
- 1Région d’Europe qui correspond plus ou moins à l'actuelle Moldavie.
- 2Région au sud de la Moldavie, actuel Boudjak.
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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Using “Bessarabie”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-E-S-S-A-R-A-B-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \bɛ.sa.ʁa.bi\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.