Karima
\ka.ʁi.ma\
The verdict
“Karima” is uncommon French (frequency #53,435 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,435
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-karima · Karima · French
Karima · rank #53,435 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,435
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kde
Nearest frequency peer: kde (+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 « Karima »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- jaunisse
jaunisse
46,571 corpus weight
- Jeannie
Jeannie
46,570 corpus weight
- juguler
juguler
46,568 corpus weight
- Karima
Karima
46,566 corpus weight
- kde
kde
46,565 corpus weight
- Kerguelen
Kerguelen
46,562 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Karima » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Karima |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁi.ma\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #53,435 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Karima » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Karima is uncommon French at frequency #53,435 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ka.ʁi.ma\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
Karima has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Karima, spelled K-A-R-I-M-A.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Karima appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Nous sommes arrivés à un accord historique, qui réconcilie l’automobile et le climat, deux frères ennemis », s’est réjouie l’eurodéputée écologiste française Karima Delli, présidente de la commission Transports au Parlement européen.
Avec Sélim Zouaoui, architecte lui aussi, Karima Lebsir a lancé Cycle Zéro, une application mobile qui permet aux particuliers de récupérer gratuitement des matériaux non utilisés.
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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