Karnataka
\kaʁ.na.ta.ka\
The verdict
“Karnataka” is uncommon French (frequency #88,792 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,792
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État de l’Inde.
Corpus desk
Index FR-karnataka · Karnataka · French
Karnataka · rank #88,792 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,792
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH Kamtchatka
Nearest frequency peer: Kamtchatka (-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 « Karnataka »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- kalashnikov
kalashnikov
11,212 corpus weight
- Kamtchatka
Kamtchatka
11,210 corpus weight
- Karnataka
Karnataka
11,209 corpus weight
- Kassel
Kassel
11,207 corpus weight
- kdo
kdo
11,206 corpus weight
- kell
kell
11,205 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Karnataka » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Karnataka |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ.na.ta.ka\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #88,792 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Karnataka » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Karnataka is uncommon French at frequency #88,792 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \kaʁ.na.ta.ka\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "État de l’Inde.".
Karnataka doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 Karnataka, spelled K-A-R-N-A-T-A-K-A.
Definition
- 1État de l’Inde.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Karnataka appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous avons avec succès lancé nos hybrides multipliés par recherche dans différents états de l’Inde à savoir Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, du Karnataka, de l'Utterpradesh, du Chattisgarh, du Jharkhand, du Tamilnadu, Rajasthan et du Goudjerate.
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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