djellaba
\dʒɛ.la.ba\
The verdict
“djellaba” is uncommon French (frequency #61,451 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,451
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Longue tunique qui descend aux chevilles et généralement munie d’une capuche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-djellaba · djellaba · French
djellaba · rank #61,451 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,451
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH divulguée
Nearest frequency peer: divulguée (-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 « djellaba »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- disqualifie
disqualifie
38,553 corpus weight
- disserter
disserter
38,552 corpus weight
- divulguée
divulguée
38,551 corpus weight
- djellaba
djellaba
38,550 corpus weight
- doctrinal
doctrinal
38,549 corpus weight
- Dolto
Dolto
38,548 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « djellaba » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | djellaba |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʒɛ.la.ba\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #61,451 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « djellaba » en français
Rare enough to double-check
djellaba is uncommon French at frequency #61,451 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dʒɛ.la.ba\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Longue tunique qui descend aux chevilles et généralement munie d’une capuche.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for djellaba, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is djellaba, spelled D-J-E-L-L-A-B-A.
Definition
- 1Longue tunique qui descend aux chevilles et généralement munie d’une capuche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how djellaba appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il jeta sur son lit son grand manteau réglementaire, moitié djellaba, moitié manteau de paysan andalou écussonné sur la poitrine aux armes de la Légion.
Nous entendions le murmure des conversations que la nuit accueillait. De temps en temps, la blancheur phosphorescente d’une djellaba.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).