kamala
\ka.ma.la\
The verdict
“kamala” is uncommon French (frequency #69,955 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,955
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Autre nom du lotus sacré (Nelumbo nucifera).
Corpus desk
Index FR-kamala · kamala · French
kamala · rank #69,955 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,955
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH jérémiades
Nearest frequency peer: jérémiades (-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 « kamala »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- jugerez
jugerez
30,050 corpus weight
- Jutland
Jutland
30,048 corpus weight
- jérémiades
jérémiades
30,047 corpus weight
- kamala
kamala
30,046 corpus weight
- Kaminski
Kaminski
30,045 corpus weight
- kaz
kaz
30,042 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « kamala » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kamala |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ma.la\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #69,955 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « kamala » en français
Rare enough to double-check
kamala is uncommon French at frequency #69,955 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ma.la\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for kamala in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is kamala, spelled K-A-M-A-L-A.
Definition
- 1Autre nom du lotus sacré (Nelumbo nucifera).
- 2Kamala rouge
- 3Poudre rouge tirée du kamala rouge. Elle est constituée de poils unicellulaires et de petites glandes contenant une résine jaune-rouge et fut utilisé comme anthelminthique
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how kamala appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les arbres sacrés de Shiva sont l’Ashoka (Saraca indica), le Kesara (Mimusops elengi), le Champaka (Michela champaca), etc. L’arbre de Laxmi est le Kamala (Nelumbium speciosum) et celui de Parvati le Srip-phala (Aegle marmelos).
La matière colorante du kamala est utilisée pour la teinture de la soie, et le kamala lui-même est préconisé contre le ver solitaire.
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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