kantar
\kɑ̃.taʁ\
The verdict
“kantar” is uncommon French (frequency #78,552 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,552
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom, en Égypte, d’un poids de 45 kilogrammes environ. — (Journal des Débats, 30 septembre 1876, 2ᵉ page, 1^(ière) colonne)
Corpus desk
Index FR-kantar · kantar · French
kantar · rank #78,552 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,552
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH Khashoggi
Nearest frequency peer: Khashoggi (+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 « kantar »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- jugeais
jugeais
21,454 corpus weight
- kadi
kadi
21,452 corpus weight
- kalou
kalou
21,451 corpus weight
- kantar
kantar
21,449 corpus weight
- Khashoggi
Khashoggi
21,448 corpus weight
- Kobané
Kobané
21,445 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « kantar » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kantar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.taʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #78,552 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « kantar » en français
Rare enough to double-check
kantar is uncommon French at frequency #78,552 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɑ̃.taʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom, en Égypte, d’un poids de 45 kilogrammes environ. — (Journal des Débats, 30 septembre 1876, 2ᵉ page, 1^(ière) colonne)".
No misspelling variants are generated for kantar in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is kantar, spelled K-A-N-T-A-R.
Definition
- 1Nom, en Égypte, d’un poids de 45 kilogrammes environ. — (Journal des Débats, 30 septembre 1876, 2ᵉ page, 1^(ière) colonne)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how kantar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
CANTARO, Cantare, Cantar, Cantaar, Kantar. Poids de commerce, employé surtout dans le Levant et en Italie. Le cantaro est analogue au quintal, usité dans presque toute l’Europe, et sert au même usage. Voyez aussi Cantara. […] Alger. Le kantar-kébir ou grand kantar, pour le fer, le plomb, la laine, etc. = 100 rootl-kébir ou grands rotl = 150 rotl-attari
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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