Kachin
\ka.ʃɛ̃\
The verdict
“Kachin” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Membre de l’ethnie qui vit principalement dans le nord du Myanmar (Birmanie).
Corpus desk
Index FR-kachin · Kachin · French
Kachin · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "K" 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 | Kachin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʃɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
Kachin is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ʃɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Membre de l’ethnie qui vit principalement dans le nord du Myanmar (Birmanie).".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Kachin, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Kachin, spelled K-A-C-H-I-N.
Definition
- 1Membre de l’ethnie qui vit principalement dans le nord du Myanmar (Birmanie).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Kachin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Kachins représentent 7 % de la population birmane, ils sont chrétiens (baptistes et catholiques), bouddhistes ou polythéistes. Ils sont aussi un des 56 groupes ethniques officiellement reconnus par la République populaire de Chine (132 143 représentants recensés en 2001).
Synonyms
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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.