sabir
\sa.biʁ\
The verdict
“sabir” is uncommon French (frequency #92,153 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,153
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mélange de langues romanes et, dans une moindre mesure, de turc, d’arabe et de grec, parlé du XVIᵉ au XIXᵉ siècle dans les ports levantins.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sabir · sabir · French
sabir · rank #92,153 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,153
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sacrifiera
Nearest frequency peer: sacrifiera (+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 « sabir »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- résiderait
résiderait
7,852 corpus weight
- résistivité
résistivité
7,851 corpus weight
- révisez
révisez
7,850 corpus weight
- sabir
sabir
7,848 corpus weight
- sacrifiera
sacrifiera
7,847 corpus weight
- Saillard
Saillard
7,844 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sabir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sabir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.biʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #92,153 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sabir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sabir is uncommon French at frequency #92,153 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sa.biʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for sabir, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 sabir, spelled S-A-B-I-R.
Definition
- 1Mélange de langues romanes et, dans une moindre mesure, de turc, d’arabe et de grec, parlé du XVIᵉ au XIXᵉ siècle dans les ports levantins.
- 2Parler hétérogène au vocabulaire restreint, à la morphologie et à la syntaxe sommaires, utilisé par des locuteurs de langues maternelles différentes à des fins de communication orale.
- 3Discours difficilement compréhensible ; charabia.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sabir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Note : Rendue célèbre par Molière dans son ballet turc du Bourgeois gentilhomme (acte IV, scène 5) : Se te sabir, Te respondir… Si toi savoir, toi répondre…
Le sabir est encore appelé langue franque.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "sabir"?
What does "sabir" mean?
How do you pronounce "sabir"?
What language does "sabir" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sabir", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).