Kampala
\kam.pa.la\
The verdict
“Kampala” is uncommon French (frequency #50,316 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,316
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville et capitale de l’Ouganda.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kampala · Kampala · French
Kampala · rank #50,316 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,316
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH Kamouraska
Nearest frequency peer: Kamouraska (-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 « Kampala »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- junk
junk
49,688 corpus weight
- Kamouraska
Kamouraska
49,686 corpus weight
- Kampala
Kampala
49,685 corpus weight
- Katarina
Katarina
49,684 corpus weight
- Kaufmann
Kaufmann
49,683 corpus weight
- Krug
Krug
49,682 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Kampala » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kampala |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kam.pa.la\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,316 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Kampala » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Kampala is uncommon French at frequency #50,316 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \kam.pa.la\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Kampala has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Kampala, spelled K-A-M-P-A-L-A.
Definition
- 1Ville et capitale de l’Ouganda.
- 2Gouvernement ougandais.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Kampala appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La mère, Safina Namukwaya, est en bonne santé avec ses deux enfants dans un établissement de la capitale, Kampala.
– J’arrive de Kampala. Des questions de politique extérieure. Et j’ai pensé que c’était l’occasion rêvée pour passer te voir.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).