kankan
\kɑ̃.kɑ̃\
The verdict
“kankan” is uncommon French (frequency #79,445 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,445
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mot imitant le cri du canard.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kankan · kankan · French
kankan · rank #79,445 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,445
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH karo
Nearest frequency peer: karo (+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 « kankan »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- jive
jive
20,560 corpus weight
- junien
junien
20,558 corpus weight
- kankan
kankan
20,556 corpus weight
- karo
karo
20,555 corpus weight
- kath
kath
20,554 corpus weight
- Kaunas
Kaunas
20,552 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « kankan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kankan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.kɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #79,445 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « kankan » en français
Rare enough to double-check
kankan is uncommon French at frequency #79,445 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɑ̃.kɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mot imitant le cri du canard.".
kankan doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is kankan, spelled K-A-N-K-A-N.
Definition
- 1Mot imitant le cri du canard.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how kankan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le chant des oiseaux, les cris des volailles variés par le fréquent et bruyant kankan des canards.
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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