kadi
\ka.di\
The verdict
“kadi” is uncommon French (frequency #78,549 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,549
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de cadi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kadi · kadi · French
kadi · rank #78,549 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,549
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kalou
Nearest frequency peer: kalou (+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 « kadi »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- judéité
judéité
21,455 corpus weight
- jugeais
jugeais
21,454 corpus weight
- kadi
kadi
21,452 corpus weight
- kalou
kalou
21,451 corpus weight
- kantar
kantar
21,449 corpus weight
- Khashoggi
Khashoggi
21,448 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « kadi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kadi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.di\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #78,549 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « kadi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
kadi is uncommon French at frequency #78,549 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.di\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de cadi.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for kadi, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 kadi, spelled K-A-D-I.
Definition
- 1Variante de cadi.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how kadi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
… la populace de Brousse, excitée par le kadi, démolit de fond en comble, non-seulement la nouvelle, mais encore trois anciennes églises.
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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