Ekman
\ek.man\
The verdict
“Ekman” is uncommon French (frequency #89,664 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,664
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ekman · Ekman · French
Ekman · rank #89,664 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,664
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH Eiger
Nearest frequency peer: Eiger (-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 « Ekman »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dévoilerai
dévoilerai
10,341 corpus weight
- editing
editing
10,340 corpus weight
- Eiger
Eiger
10,338 corpus weight
- Ekman
Ekman
10,337 corpus weight
- embaumer
embaumer
10,335 corpus weight
- embourber
embourber
10,334 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Ekman » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ekman |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ek.man\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #89,664 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Ekman » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Ekman is uncommon French at frequency #89,664 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ek.man\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Ekman in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Ekman, spelled E-K-M-A-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
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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