eben
\ˈeː.bən\
The verdict
“eben” is uncommon French (frequency #68,241 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,241
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plat, uni, égal, lisse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-eben · eben · French
eben · rank #68,241 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,241
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH désensibilisa…
Nearest frequency peer: désensibilisation (-4 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 « eben »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dépistages
dépistages
31,766 corpus weight
- dépérisseme…
dépérissement
31,765 corpus weight
- désensibili…
désensibilisation
31,764 corpus weight
- eben
eben
31,760 corpus weight
- emboîtent
emboîtent
31,755 corpus weight
- endommageant
endommageant
31,754 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « eben » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | eben |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈeː.bən\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #68,241 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « eben » en français
Rare enough to double-check
eben is uncommon French at frequency #68,241 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈeː.bən\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plat, uni, égal, lisse.".
Zero misspellings are on record for eben in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is eben, spelled E-B-E-N.
Definition
- 1Plat, uni, égal, lisse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how eben appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ein Zelt stellt man am besten dort auf, wo der Boden eben ist.
Zu ebener Erde.
Antonyms
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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