Kaduna
\ka.dou.na\
The verdict
“Kaduna” is uncommon French (frequency #96,045 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,045
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville et État du Nord du Nigéria.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kaduna · Kaduna · French
Kaduna · rank #96,045 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,045
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH juraient
Nearest frequency peer: juraient (-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 « Kaduna »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Junie
Junie
3,959 corpus weight
- juraient
juraient
3,957 corpus weight
- Kaduna
Kaduna
3,956 corpus weight
- Kagoshima
Kagoshima
3,955 corpus weight
- kamoulox
kamoulox
3,954 corpus weight
- karman
karman
3,953 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Kaduna » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kaduna |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ka.dou.na\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #96,045 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Kaduna » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Kaduna is uncommon French at frequency #96,045 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ka.dou.na\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville et État du Nord du Nigéria.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Kaduna in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 Kaduna, spelled K-A-D-U-N-A.
Definition
- 1Ville et État du Nord du Nigéria.
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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