Kaliningrad
\ka.li.nin.ɡʁad\
The verdict
“Kaliningrad” is uncommon French (frequency #74,119 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,119
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville de Russie, située dans une exclave territoriale russe au bord de la mer Baltique, entre la Pologne et la Lituanie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kaliningrad · Kaliningrad · French
Kaliningrad · rank #74,119 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,119
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH Juninho
Nearest frequency peer: Juninho (-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 « Kaliningrad »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- jarrets
jarrets
25,887 corpus weight
- JSON
JSON
25,884 corpus weight
- Juninho
Juninho
25,883 corpus weight
- Kaliningrad
Kaliningrad
25,882 corpus weight
- kazakhs
kazakhs
25,880 corpus weight
- khalife
khalife
25,878 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Kaliningrad » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kaliningrad |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ka.li.nin.ɡʁad\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #74,119 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Kaliningrad » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Kaliningrad is uncommon French at frequency #74,119 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ka.li.nin.ɡʁad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Kaliningrad in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Kaliningrad, spelled K-A-L-I-N-I-N-G-R-A-D.
Definition
- 1Ville de Russie, située dans une exclave territoriale russe au bord de la mer Baltique, entre la Pologne et la Lituanie.
- 2Oblast dont la ville est capitale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Kaliningrad appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour la Russie, Gotland pourrait être une base avancée pour ses forces navales et aériennes, échappant ainsi à ses bases encombrées de Saint-Pétersbourg et de Kaliningrad.
La Lituanie a restreint le transit de marchandises russes à destination de Kaliningrad qui passe par son territoire.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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