rebat
\ʁə.ba\
The verdict
“rebat” is uncommon French (frequency #90,107 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,107
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Patrouille douanière de surveillance de la frontière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rebat · rebat · French
rebat · rank #90,107 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,107
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH reconcentrer
Nearest frequency peer: reconcentrer (+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 « rebat »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ravissent
ravissent
9,898 corpus weight
- rebat
rebat
9,894 corpus weight
- reconcentrer
reconcentrer
9,893 corpus weight
- reconnaîtras
reconnaîtras
9,892 corpus weight
- reculaient
reculaient
9,891 corpus weight
- rediffuser
rediffuser
9,889 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rebat » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rebat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.ba\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #90,107 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rebat » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rebat is uncommon French at frequency #90,107 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁə.ba\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Patrouille douanière de surveillance de la frontière.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for rebat in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is rebat, spelled R-E-B-A-T.
Definition
- 1Patrouille douanière de surveillance de la frontière.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rebat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Maintenant qu’il avait dépassé la zone et franchi les lignes de rebat, Kinkin marchait plus librement, respirant à longs traits, révâssait même un peu.
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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