kasbah
\kaz.ba\
The verdict
“kasbah” is uncommon French (frequency #71,641 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,641
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de casbah.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kasbah · kasbah · French
kasbah · rank #71,641 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,641
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH karr
Nearest frequency peer: karr (-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 « kasbah »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- jures
jures
28,363 corpus weight
- jurispruden…
jurisprudences
28,362 corpus weight
- karr
karr
28,361 corpus weight
- kasbah
kasbah
28,360 corpus weight
- Kauffmann
Kauffmann
28,359 corpus weight
- kee
kee
28,357 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « kasbah » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kasbah |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaz.ba\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,641 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « kasbah » en français
Rare enough to double-check
kasbah is uncommon French at frequency #71,641 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kaz.ba\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de casbah.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for kasbah, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is kasbah, spelled K-A-S-B-A-H.
Definition
- 1Variante de casbah.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how kasbah appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Deux ou trois villages seulement, séparés par des solitudes ; villages aux maisonnettes basses, aussi blanches de chaux que des kasbah d’Algérie et entourées de certaines espèces de fleurs qui peuvent résister au vent marin.
Vers quelle kasbah s'acheminent toutes ces Maugrabines qui louvoient la-bas ?
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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