Rabe
[ˈraː.bə]
The verdict
“Rabe” is an uncommon French word, ranked #69,348 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #69,348
- frequency rank, French
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Corbeau.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rabe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈraː.bə] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #69,348 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Rabe” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Rabe is 4 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈraː.bə]. Corpus data places it at rank #69,348 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Corbeau.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Rabe in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Rabe, spelled R-A-B-E.
Definition
- 1Corbeau.
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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Using “Rabe”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-A-B-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈraː.bə] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.