ibo
\i.bo\
The verdict
“ibo” is uncommon French (frequency #83,031 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,031
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de igbo.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ibo · ibo · French
ibo · rank #83,031 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,031
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH illumina
Nearest frequency peer: illumina (+2 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 « ibo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hydroliennes
hydroliennes
16,974 corpus weight
- hypercentre
hypercentre
16,973 corpus weight
- ibo
ibo
16,970 corpus weight
- illumina
illumina
16,968 corpus weight
- illuminait
illuminait
16,967 corpus weight
- implantant
implantant
16,966 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ibo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ibo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.bo\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #83,031 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ibo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ibo is uncommon French at frequency #83,031 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \i.bo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de igbo.".
Zero misspellings are on record for ibo in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is ibo, spelled I-B-O.
Definition
- 1Variante de igbo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ibo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle trouvera sa tantie errant d’une pièce à l’autre, un verre d’eau à la main, répétant sans cesse en ibo, à mi-voix : « Mais pourquoi vous ai-je demandé de me rendre visite, à Nnedi et toi ? Pourquoi mon chi m’a-t-il trompée comme ça ? » Et Chika empoignera fermement sa tantie par les épaules et la conduira à un canapé.
Nigeria : Ckrowd et School on Air lancent une formation technologique en ligne en ibo, yoruba, haoussa et français
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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