kann
\kan\
The verdict
“kann” is uncommon French (frequency #72,460 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,460
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de können.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kann · kann · French
kann · rank #72,460 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,460
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH Kaaba
Nearest frequency peer: Kaaba (-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 « kann »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- joyeusetés
joyeusetés
27,545 corpus weight
- judaïque
judaïque
27,543 corpus weight
- Kaaba
Kaaba
27,542 corpus weight
- kann
kann
27,541 corpus weight
- Katya
Katya
27,540 corpus weight
- Kenyon
Kenyon
27,538 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « kann » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kann |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kan\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #72,460 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « kann » en français
Rare enough to double-check
kann is uncommon French at frequency #72,460 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kan\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for kann, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 kann, spelled K-A-N-N.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de können.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de können.
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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