rabats
\ʁa.ba\
The verdict
“rabats” is uncommon French (frequency #59,568 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,568
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de rabat.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rabats · rabats · French
rabats · rank #59,568 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,568
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH quiproquos
Nearest frequency peer: quiproquos (-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 « rabats »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- quanti
quanti
40,436 corpus weight
- questionnée
questionnée
40,435 corpus weight
- quiproquos
quiproquos
40,434 corpus weight
- rabats
rabats
40,433 corpus weight
- raclures
raclures
40,432 corpus weight
- raffiner
raffiner
40,431 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rabats » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rabats |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁa.ba\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,568 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rabats » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rabats is uncommon French at frequency #59,568 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁa.ba\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de rabat.".
No misspelling variants are generated for rabats in our index, 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 carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is rabats, spelled R-A-B-A-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de rabat.
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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