kapo
\ka.po\
The verdict
“kapo” is uncommon French (frequency #86,846 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,846
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Surveillant, prisonnier de droit commun, chargé de dénoncer et punir les prisonniers politiques dans les camps de concentration soviétiques ou nazis.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kapo · kapo · French
kapo · rank #86,846 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,846
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH Kap
Nearest frequency peer: Kap (-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 « kapo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- kaj
kaj
13,158 corpus weight
- Kap
Kap
13,156 corpus weight
- kapo
kapo
13,155 corpus weight
- Karsenti
Karsenti
13,154 corpus weight
- karstiques
karstiques
13,153 corpus weight
- Keiji
Keiji
13,152 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « kapo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kapo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.po\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #86,846 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « kapo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
kapo is uncommon French at frequency #86,846 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.po\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for kapo in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is kapo, spelled K-A-P-O.
Definition
- 1Surveillant, prisonnier de droit commun, chargé de dénoncer et punir les prisonniers politiques dans les camps de concentration soviétiques ou nazis.
- 2Personne armée de bons principes, qui veille à la bonne tenue d’un groupe dont elle s’estime responsable devant la hiérarchie invisible.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how kapo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les spectateurs attendaient avec impatience la séquence des kapos.
Depuis toujours, le lit est le lieu du souvenir. Gagné de haute lutte, quand elle était au camp, lorsqu’elle pouvait tromper les kapos et rester cachée un moment de plus sous la guenille qui servait de couverture.
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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