Karénine
\ka.ʁe.nin\
The verdict
“Karénine” is uncommon French (frequency #80,337 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,337
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-karenine · Karénine · French
Karénine · rank #80,337 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,337
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH Kadyrov
Nearest frequency peer: Kadyrov (-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 « Karénine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- juri
juri
19,667 corpus weight
- Justus
Justus
19,666 corpus weight
- Kadyrov
Kadyrov
19,665 corpus weight
- Karénine
Karénine
19,664 corpus weight
- Katharina
Katharina
19,663 corpus weight
- Katowice
Katowice
19,662 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Karénine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Karénine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁe.nin\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,337 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Karénine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Karénine is uncommon French at frequency #80,337 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ka.ʁe.nin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Karénine, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Karénine, spelled K-A-R-É-N-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Karénine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle était Nicole Diver, Anna Karénine, elle était Pauline de Théus.
Depuis longtemps ont disparu les convois de moissonneurs qui faux en main, remontaient les plaines de Russie du Sud au Nord, récoltant au passage les céréales d’Igor Karénine, ou ceux des Bretons moissonnant dans l’Île-de-France.
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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