Rabastens
\ʁa.bas.tɛ̃s\
The verdict
“Rabastens” is uncommon French (frequency #99,533 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,533
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Tarn.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rabastens · Rabastens · French
Rabastens · rank #99,533 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,533
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rabâché
Nearest frequency peer: rabâché (+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 « Rabastens »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Quevedo
Quevedo
472 corpus weight
- quintilien
quintilien
470 corpus weight
- Rabastens
Rabastens
468 corpus weight
- rabâché
rabâché
467 corpus weight
- racée
racée
466 corpus weight
- raidir
raidir
463 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Rabastens » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rabastens |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʁa.bas.tɛ̃s\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #99,533 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Rabastens » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Rabastens is uncommon French at frequency #99,533 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʁa.bas.tɛ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Rabastens in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists 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 Rabastens, spelled R-A-B-A-S-T-E-N-S.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Tarn.
- 2Ancien nom de la commune française Rabastens-de-Bigorre.
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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