kanu
\kànu\
The verdict
“kanu” is uncommon French (frequency #98,139 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,139
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Aimer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kanu · kanu · French
kanu · rank #98,139 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,139
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kagura
Nearest frequency peer: kagura (-2 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 « kanu »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- juxtaposer
juxtaposer
1,865 corpus weight
- kagura
kagura
1,864 corpus weight
- kanu
kanu
1,862 corpus weight
- Katara
Katara
1,860 corpus weight
- kermesses
kermesses
1,858 corpus weight
- Ketty
Ketty
1,857 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « kanu » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kanu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kànu\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #98,139 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « kanu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
kanu is uncommon French at frequency #98,139 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kànu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Aimer.".
kanu has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is kanu, spelled K-A-N-U.
Definition
- 1Aimer.
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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