Wahabite
\wa.a.bit\
The verdict
“Wahabite” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Habitant de l’Arabie, adepte du wahhabisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wahabite · Wahabite · French
Wahabite · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "W" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wahabite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \wa.a.bit\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
Wahabite is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \wa.a.bit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Habitant de l’Arabie, adepte du wahhabisme.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Wahabite in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 Wahabite, spelled W-A-H-A-B-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Habitant de l’Arabie, adepte du wahhabisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Wahabite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les 5 millions que tous les géographes, sur l’autorité de Hassel, accordaient encore à l’État des Wahabites, sont réduit tout au plus à 300,000 par M. Mengin […]
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.