Bessarabie
\bɛ.sa.ʁa.bi\
The verdict
“Bessarabie” is uncommon French (frequency #71,284 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,284
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Région d’Europe qui correspond plus ou moins à l'actuelle Moldavie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bessarabie · Bessarabie · French
Bessarabie · rank #71,284 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,284
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Besnier
Nearest frequency peer: Besnier (-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 « Bessarabie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- belon
belon
28,721 corpus weight
- bengals
bengals
28,719 corpus weight
- Besnier
Besnier
28,718 corpus weight
- Bessarabie
Bessarabie
28,717 corpus weight
- Biafra
Biafra
28,715 corpus weight
- bidou
bidou
28,714 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Bessarabie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « Bessarabie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Bessarabie is uncommon French at frequency #71,284 among 4,251 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bessarabie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La nouvelle Roumanie, surnommée la Grande Roumanie, fut créée en plusieurs étapes : le 27 mars/7 avril 1918 les représentants politiques de la Bessarabie votèrent l’union de cette province avec la Roumanie ; le 18/28 novembre 1918 les représentants politiques de la Bucovine décidèrent aussi l’union avec la Roumanie ; enfin, le 1ᵉʳ décembre 1918, les délég…
Au delà, c’est le désert gris de l’Ukraine. Rien ! De l’herbe sèche et rase. Derrière nous, un autre Sahara : la Bessarabie.
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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