rockabilly
\ʁɔ.ka.bi.li\
The verdict
“rockabilly” is uncommon French (frequency #68,624 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,624
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Style de musique rock, ayant émergé dans les années 1950, influencé principalement par le rock et la country.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rockabilly · rockabilly · French
rockabilly · rank #68,624 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,624
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH robotisée
Nearest frequency peer: robotisée (-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 « rockabilly »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Rigal
Rigal
31,380 corpus weight
- rizière
rizière
31,379 corpus weight
- robotisée
robotisée
31,378 corpus weight
- rockabilly
rockabilly
31,377 corpus weight
- roquet
roquet
31,376 corpus weight
- rosy
rosy
31,375 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rockabilly » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rockabilly |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔ.ka.bi.li\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #68,624 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rockabilly » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rockabilly is uncommon French at frequency #68,624 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁɔ.ka.bi.li\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Style de musique rock, ayant émergé dans les années 1950, influencé principalement par le rock et la country.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for rockabilly, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is rockabilly, spelled R-O-C-K-A-B-I-L-L-Y.
Definition
- 1Style de musique rock, ayant émergé dans les années 1950, influencé principalement par le rock et la country.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rockabilly appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Blancs commençaient à parler d’un truc qui s’appelaient le rock’n’roll, mais lui, Fats, il n’avait jamais rien fait d’autre que du rythm and blues et si on voulait, on pouvait aussi parler de rockabilly, mais tout ça, c’était pareil.
Si la plupart des groupes belges s’inscrivent dans les courants internationaux (ils se définissent comme new wave, funky, rockabilly, hard rock, etc.), ils sont cependant contraints de limiter leurs ambitions au marché belge, élargi parfois au villes frontalières.
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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