MOBA
\mo.ba\
The verdict
“MOBA” is uncommon French (frequency #67,704 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,704
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genre de jeu vidéo mêlant des éléments de jeu de rôle et de stratégie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-moba · MOBA · French
MOBA · rank #67,704 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,704
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH moignon
Nearest frequency peer: moignon (+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 « MOBA »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Mitose
Mitose
32,299 corpus weight
- MOBA
MOBA
32,297 corpus weight
- moignon
moignon
32,296 corpus weight
- mola
mola
32,295 corpus weight
- mononucléose
mononucléose
32,294 corpus weight
- montanier
montanier
32,293 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « MOBA » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | MOBA |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mo.ba\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #67,704 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « MOBA » en français
Rare enough to double-check
MOBA is uncommon French at frequency #67,704 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mo.ba\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Genre de jeu vidéo mêlant des éléments de jeu de rôle et de stratégie.".
Zero misspellings are on record for MOBA in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is MOBA, spelled M-O-B-A.
Definition
- 1Genre de jeu vidéo mêlant des éléments de jeu de rôle et de stratégie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how MOBA appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A priori, le gameplay est le même que les autres MOBA sur mobile.
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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