Corbas
\kɔʁ.ba\
The verdict
“Corbas” is uncommon French (frequency #95,746 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,746
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française située dans la métropole de Lyon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-corbas · Corbas · French
Corbas · rank #95,746 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,746
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH convergé
Nearest frequency peer: convergé (-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 « Corbas »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- contrefaites
contrefaites
4,258 corpus weight
- contributri…
contributrice
4,257 corpus weight
- convergé
convergé
4,256 corpus weight
- Corbas
Corbas
4,255 corpus weight
- cores
cores
4,254 corpus weight
- coronel
coronel
4,253 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Corbas » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Corbas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kɔʁ.ba\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #95,746 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Corbas » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Corbas is uncommon French at frequency #95,746 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \kɔʁ.ba\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française située dans la métropole de Lyon.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Corbas in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Corbas, spelled C-O-R-B-A-S.
Definition
- 1Commune française située dans la métropole de Lyon.
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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