karman
The verdict
“karman” is uncommon French (frequency #96,048 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,048
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Raccordement d’aile.
Corpus desk
Index FR-karman · karman · French
karman · rank #96,048 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,048
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kamoulox
Nearest frequency peer: kamoulox (-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 « karman »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- juraient
juraient
3,957 corpus weight
- Kaduna
Kaduna
3,956 corpus weight
- Kagoshima
Kagoshima
3,955 corpus weight
- kamoulox
kamoulox
3,954 corpus weight
- karman
karman
3,953 corpus weight
- Kircher
Kircher
3,950 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « karman » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | karman |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #96,048 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « karman » en français
Rare enough to double-check
karman is uncommon French at frequency #96,048 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for karman, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 karman, spelled K-A-R-M-A-N.
Definition
- 1Raccordement d’aile.
- 2Variante de karma.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how karman appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nantes assure aussi la maîtrise d'œuvre des matériaux composites : les bords d'attaque et de fuite, les carénages de bas de volets et les karmans en sandwich et nida, les ailerons en carbone, les panneaux des volets de courbure et des nacelles des moteurs en sandwich carbone et nida.
Toute pensée, toute parole ou tout acte génère des fruits ou des conséquences. Un acte bienfaisant aura des incidences positives et un acte malfaisant des incidences négatives. La vie de tout humain dépend de son karman passé.
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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