Kaaba
The verdict
“Kaaba” is an uncommon French word, ranked #72,459 in French word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #72,459
- frequency rank, French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Grande construction cubique vide située au cœur de la mosquée, dans la cour de la masjid al-Haram (« mosquée sacrée ») à La Mecque, lieu saint de l’Islam vers lequel se tournent les croyants pour p...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kaaba |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #72,459 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Kaaba” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Kaaba is 5 letters long, classified as a proper noun. Corpus data places it at rank #72,459 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Grande construction cubique vide située au cœur de la mosquée, dans la cour de la masjid al-Haram (« mosquée sacrée ») à La Mecque, lieu saint de l’Islam vers lequel se tournent les croyants pour p...".
No misspelling variants are generated for Kaaba in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Kaaba, spelled K-A-A-B-A.
Definition
- 1Grande construction cubique vide située au cœur de la mosquée, dans la cour de la masjid al-Haram (« mosquée sacrée ») à La Mecque, lieu saint de l’Islam vers lequel se tournent les croyants pour prier.
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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Using “Kaaba”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is K-A-A-B-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.