kaan
The verdict
“kaan” is uncommon French (frequency #88,786 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,786
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Khan, prince mongol.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kaan · kaan · French
kaan · rank #88,786 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,786
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH Jézabel
Nearest frequency peer: Jézabel (-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 « kaan »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- jurassiens
jurassiens
11,219 corpus weight
- juxtapose
juxtapose
11,217 corpus weight
- Jézabel
Jézabel
11,216 corpus weight
- kaan
kaan
11,215 corpus weight
- Kaczynski
Kaczynski
11,214 corpus weight
- kalashnikov
kalashnikov
11,212 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « kaan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kaan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #88,786 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « kaan » en français
Rare enough to double-check
kaan is uncommon French at frequency #88,786 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Khan, prince mongol.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for kaan, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 kaan, spelled K-A-A-N.
Definition
- 1Khan, prince mongol.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how kaan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il sont ydres [idolâtres], et font ardoir les corps mors, et sont au grant kaan.
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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