kaolin
\ka.ɔ.lɛ̃\
The verdict
“kaolin” is uncommon French (frequency #58,711 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,711
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Argile blanche, friable et réfractaire, composée principalement de kaolinite, de silicate d’aluminium qui se forment par altération chimique des feldspaths des granites.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kaolin · kaolin · French
kaolin · rank #58,711 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,711
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH Jörg
Nearest frequency peer: Jörg (-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 « kaolin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- jockeys
jockeys
41,295 corpus weight
- Jörg
Jörg
41,291 corpus weight
- kaolin
kaolin
41,290 corpus weight
- karan
karan
41,288 corpus weight
- Kirill
Kirill
41,286 corpus weight
- Krieger
Krieger
41,285 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « kaolin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kaolin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ɔ.lɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #58,711 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « kaolin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
kaolin is uncommon French at frequency #58,711 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ɔ.lɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Argile blanche, friable et réfractaire, composée principalement de kaolinite, de silicate d’aluminium qui se forment par altération chimique des feldspaths des granites.".
kaolin doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is kaolin, spelled K-A-O-L-I-N.
Definition
- 1Argile blanche, friable et réfractaire, composée principalement de kaolinite, de silicate d’aluminium qui se forment par altération chimique des feldspaths des granites.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how kaolin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La porcelaine, cette matière céramique la plus parfaite, résulte de la liaison à une température très élevée, de l’infusible kaolin et du fusible feldspath, en une masse homogène.
Symb. Les cheveux endiablés, boule de feu renversée, coulent comme une pelletée d’or jaillie d'une jarre de kaolin sertie de deux aigues marines qui fixent Dieu comme des yeux.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).