casbah
\kaz.ba\
The verdict
“casbah” is uncommon French (frequency #51,950 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,950
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forteresse d’une ville du Maghreb ou du Levant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-casbah · casbah · French
casbah · rank #51,950 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,950
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH carrossier
Nearest frequency peer: carrossier (-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 « casbah »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- carcinome
carcinome
48,055 corpus weight
- Caribbean
Caribbean
48,054 corpus weight
- carrossier
carrossier
48,052 corpus weight
- casbah
casbah
48,051 corpus weight
- centralisés
centralisés
48,050 corpus weight
- chargeront
chargeront
48,048 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « casbah » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | casbah |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaz.ba\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,950 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « casbah » en français
Rare enough to double-check
casbah is uncommon French at frequency #51,950 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kaz.ba\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
casbah doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is casbah, spelled C-A-S-B-A-H.
Definition
- 1Forteresse d’une ville du Maghreb ou du Levant.
- 2Médina, vieille-ville de ces villes.
- 3Maison.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how casbah appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au programme de ce voyage familial (enfant à partir de 6 ans), une rando chamelière, des nuits sahariennes en bivouac au cœur des dunes, une autre dans une casbah traditionnelle dans la palmeraie de Skoura.
L’Angoulême noble cria contre l’introduction d’un giaour dans la casbah, car le salon de Mme de Bargeton était le cénacle d’une société pure de tout alliage.
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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