Chibok
\tʃi.bɔk\
The verdict
“Chibok” is uncommon French (frequency #79,154 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,154
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ville du Nigeria, dans l’État de Borno
Corpus desk
Index FR-chibok · Chibok · French
Chibok · rank #79,154 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,154
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chevreaux
Nearest frequency peer: chevreaux (-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 « Chibok »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chesne
chesne
20,849 corpus weight
- chevreaux
chevreaux
20,848 corpus weight
- Chibok
Chibok
20,847 corpus weight
- christologie
christologie
20,846 corpus weight
- chtis
chtis
20,845 corpus weight
- ciri
ciri
20,844 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Chibok » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Chibok |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \tʃi.bɔk\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #79,154 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Chibok » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Chibok is uncommon French at frequency #79,154 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \tʃi.bɔk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Chibok doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Chibok, spelled C-H-I-B-O-K.
Definition
- 1ville du Nigeria, dans l’État de Borno
- 2zone de gouvernement local du Nigeria ayant pour siège la ville du même nom
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Chibok appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Oui bien sûr, il faut se rappeler de ces quelques 200 écolières de la ville de Chibok, dans le nord-est du Nigeria, enlevées par Abubakar Shekau, le leader de Boko Haram, il y a tout juste un an.
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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