Kanal
\kaˈnaːl\
The verdict
“Kanal” is uncommon French (frequency #83,080 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,080
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Canal(voie d’eau).
Corpus desk
Index FR-kanal · Kanal · French
Kanal · rank #83,080 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,080
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH Kahnawake
Nearest frequency peer: Kahnawake (-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 « Kanal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- juchée
juchée
16,925 corpus weight
- judex
judex
16,924 corpus weight
- Kahnawake
Kahnawake
16,922 corpus weight
- Kanal
Kanal
16,921 corpus weight
- Katell
Katell
16,920 corpus weight
- Khorassan
Khorassan
16,917 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Kanal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kanal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaˈnaːl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #83,080 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Kanal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Kanal is uncommon French at frequency #83,080 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kaˈnaːl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Kanal in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Kanal, spelled K-A-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1Canal(voie d’eau).
- 2Conduit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Kanal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alexander von Humboldt war in ganz Europa berühmt wegen einer Expedition in die Tropen, die er fünfundzwanzig Jahre zuvor unternommen hatte. Er (...) hatte den natürlichen Kanal zwischen Orinoko und Amazonas entdeckt, den höchsten Berg der bekannten Welt bestiegen, Tausende Pflanzen und Hunderte Tiere, manche lebend, die meisten tot, gesammelt (...)
Synonyms
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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