kalou
\ka.lu\
The verdict
“kalou” is uncommon French (frequency #78,550 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,550
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mortier et pilon utilisés dans la cuisine réunionnaise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kalou · kalou · French
kalou · rank #78,550 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,550
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kadi
Nearest frequency peer: kadi (-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 « kalou »
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 « kalou » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kalou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.lu\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #78,550 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « kalou » en français
Rare enough to double-check
kalou is uncommon French at frequency #78,550 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.lu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for kalou, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is kalou, spelled K-A-L-O-U.
Definition
- 1Mortier et pilon utilisés dans la cuisine réunionnaise.
- 2Pâtisserie faite d’un beignet parfumé à l’eau de rose d’origine tamoule.
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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