sabra
\sa.bʁa\
The verdict
“sabra” is uncommon French (frequency #64,073 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,073
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Israélien né sur le territoire de l’actuel Israël avant et après la création de cet État (1948).
Corpus desk
Index FR-sabra · sabra · French
sabra · rank #64,073 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,073
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sacralisation
Nearest frequency peer: sacralisation (+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 « sabra »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- répressifs
répressifs
35,931 corpus weight
- répétiteur
répétiteur
35,930 corpus weight
- sabra
sabra
35,928 corpus weight
- sacralisati…
sacralisation
35,927 corpus weight
- safer
safer
35,926 corpus weight
- saisissantes
saisissantes
35,925 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sabra » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sabra |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.bʁa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #64,073 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sabra » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sabra is uncommon French at frequency #64,073 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sa.bʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Israélien né sur le territoire de l’actuel Israël avant et après la création de cet État (1948).".
No misspelling variants are generated for sabra in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is sabra, spelled S-A-B-R-A.
Definition
- 1Israélien né sur le territoire de l’actuel Israël avant et après la création de cet État (1948).
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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