Kven
noun
Kven is a noun meaning “A person of Finnish descent living in North Norway” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-V-E-N, and it appears about once in every 81 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Kven is Kvens.
What does Kven mean?
noun
- 1
A person of Finnish descent living in North Norway.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of Kven
- Kvens plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Kven?
Kven appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Kven in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense language:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | kvène |
| German | kvenisch |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.