kalach
\ka.laʃ\
The verdict
“kalach” is uncommon French (frequency #93,939 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,939
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Kalachnikov, kalashnikov.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kalach · kalach · French
kalach · rank #93,939 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,939
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH Kadri
Nearest frequency peer: Kadri (-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 « kalach »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Josip
Josip
6,066 corpus weight
- Kadri
Kadri
6,063 corpus weight
- kalach
kalach
6,062 corpus weight
- kalla
kalla
6,061 corpus weight
- Kansai
Kansai
6,060 corpus weight
- kemi
kemi
6,059 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « kalach » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kalach |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.laʃ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #93,939 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « kalach » en français
Rare enough to double-check
kalach is uncommon French at frequency #93,939 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.laʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Kalachnikov, kalashnikov.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for kalach, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is kalach, spelled K-A-L-A-C-H.
Definition
- 1Kalachnikov, kalashnikov.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how kalach appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On s’est battu avec des kalach contre des canons et des mortiers. Ça n’était pas tenable.
Je veux comprendre les dynamiques qui font passer, en quelques semaines ou en quelques mois, de l’ignorance d’un délinquant de cité fumeur de shit à l’expertise d’un philosophe des hadiths ; de la naïveté d’une gamine, coquette des beaux quartiers, à cette voilée belliqueuse en quête d’un mari à kalach ; de l’innocence d’un jeune lycéen à l’engagement d’u…
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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