Kamouraska

\ka.mu.ʁas.ka\

/\ka.mu.ʁas.ka\/ name

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The verdict

“Kamouraska” is uncommon French (frequency #50,315 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#50,315
frequency rank, French
737
“K” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Municipalité régionale de comté de la province de Québec, dans la région administrative du Bas-Saint-Laurent.

Corpus desk

Index FR-kamouraska · Kamouraska · French

Kamouraska · rank #50,315 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #50,315
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 737
  • PHOTO-FINISH Kampala

Nearest frequency peer: Kampala (+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 « Kamouraska »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Kamouraska » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Kamouraska
PropertyValue
HeadwordKamouraska
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\ka.mu.ʁas.ka\
Letters10
Frequency rank#50,315
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Kamouraska » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).Kamouraskatombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « Kampala » (#50,316), « junk » (#50,313), « Katarina » (#50,317). Parmi 737 lemmes en « K », « Kamouraska » est au #50,315. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Kamouraska is uncommon French at frequency #50,315 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ka.mu.ʁas.ka\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Kamouraska, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Kamouraska, spelled K-A-M-O-U-R-A-S-K-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Municipalité régionale de comté de la province de Québec, dans la région administrative du Bas-Saint-Laurent.
  2. 2
    Municipalité canadienne du Québec située dans la MRC du même nom.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Kamouraska appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Un homme a perdu la vie après une violente collision frontale entre deux véhicules survenue lundi midi à Saint-Pascal, au Bas-Saint-Laurent. […] L’incident s’est produit vers 12h10, près du 947, route 230, dans la petite municipalité de la MRC de Kamouraska.
  2. Annie St-Pierre sait de quoi elle parle, puisqu’elle a vécu la séparation de ses parents dans les années 80. « En région, ma sœur et moi étions les seules à avoir des parents séparés dans ma famille et dans nos classes. Avoir deux maisons était un peu difficile à expliquer », raconte celle qui a grandi dans le Kamouraska.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Kamouraska"?
"Kamouraska" is spelled K-A-M-O-U-R-A-S-K-A. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.mu.ʁas.ka\.
What does "Kamouraska" mean?
As a proper noun, "Kamouraska" means: Municipalité régionale de comté de la province de Québec, dans la région administrative du Bas-Saint-Laurent.
How do you pronounce "Kamouraska"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Kamouraska" is \ka.mu.ʁas.ka\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Kamouraska" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Kamouraska", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list