Moab
\mɔ.ab\
The verdict
“Moab” is uncommon French (frequency #59,452 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,452
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personnage biblique, ancêtre éponyme du peuple des Moabites, fils de Lot.
Corpus desk
Index FR-moab · Moab · French
Moab · rank #59,452 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,452
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Moebius
Nearest frequency peer: Moebius (+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 « Moab »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Millennium
Millennium
40,552 corpus weight
- miraculeuses
miraculeuses
40,551 corpus weight
- Moab
Moab
40,549 corpus weight
- Moebius
Moebius
40,548 corpus weight
- momentané
momentané
40,547 corpus weight
- Monika
Monika
40,545 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Moab » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Moab |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.ab\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #59,452 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Moab » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Moab is uncommon French at frequency #59,452 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \mɔ.ab\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personnage biblique, ancêtre éponyme du peuple des Moabites, fils de Lot.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Moab in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Moab, spelled M-O-A-B.
Definition
- 1Personnage biblique, ancêtre éponyme du peuple des Moabites, fils de Lot.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Moab appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Moïse mourut sur la terre de Moab, mais avant de se fermer, ses yeux avaient vu Chanaan.
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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