nabi
\na.bi\
The verdict
“nabi” is uncommon French (frequency #64,637 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,637
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prophète hébreu, homme inspiré, illuminé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nabi · nabi · French
nabi · rank #64,637 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,637
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH mégalopole
Nearest frequency peer: mégalopole (-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 « nabi »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- musqué
musqué
35,369 corpus weight
- mécontentem…
mécontentements
35,367 corpus weight
- médicalisée
médicalisée
35,366 corpus weight
- mégalopole
mégalopole
35,365 corpus weight
- nabi
nabi
35,364 corpus weight
- Nakache
Nakache
35,363 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nabi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nabi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \na.bi\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #64,637 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nabi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nabi is uncommon French at frequency #64,637 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \na.bi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for nabi, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 nabi, spelled N-A-B-I.
Definition
- 1Prophète hébreu, homme inspiré, illuminé.
- 2Peintre postimpressionniste, symboliste du XIXᵉ siècle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nabi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chaque tribu nomade avait son nabi ou prophète.
Quelle analogie pouvait-on relever entre cet octogénaire las et triste et l’évangéliste de l’Ancien Testament, le nabi en tumulte, l’impétueux, le vitupérant Isaïe ?
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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