cahba
\kah.ba\
The verdict
“cahba” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prostituée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cahba · cahba · French
cahba · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cahba |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kah.ba\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cahba » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cahba is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kah.ba\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prostituée.".
cahba doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is cahba, spelled C-A-H-B-A.
Definition
- 1Prostituée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cahba appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur l’ancien marché des esclaves, on avait élevé une estrade, où les plus expertes cahbas de Tunis trémoussaient leur ventre et poussaient des tremolos de joie en l’honneur de « notre maître » : Gouttelette-de-Musc se trouvait dans le nombre des élues et j’en éprouvai un rétrospectif orgueil.
Aïcha avait tout su ; elle attendait les parents de son mari, le sourire sur les lèvres. — Direz-vous encore, leur cria-t-elle du seuil de la maison, que j’ai empoisonné le père de mes enfants ? — Tais-toi, cahba ! lui répondit Saïd avec un geste de menace, et va-t’en !
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.