karst
\kaʁst\
The verdict
“karst” is uncommon French (frequency #77,641 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,641
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Paysage en plateau de roches calcaires arides et au sol très perméable érodé par l’eau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-karst · karst · French
karst · rank #77,641 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,641
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH keeping
Nearest frequency peer: keeping (+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 « karst »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- jiri
jiri
22,364 corpus weight
- joual
joual
22,363 corpus weight
- karst
karst
22,360 corpus weight
- keeping
keeping
22,359 corpus weight
- keynésien
keynésien
22,358 corpus weight
- Kiara
Kiara
22,356 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « karst » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | karst |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁst\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #77,641 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « karst » en français
Rare enough to double-check
karst is uncommon French at frequency #77,641 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kaʁst\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for karst in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is karst, spelled K-A-R-S-T.
Definition
- 1Paysage en plateau de roches calcaires arides et au sol très perméable érodé par l’eau.
- 2Systèmes de cavités sous-jacents de ce genre de paysage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how karst appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une caractéristique essentielle de Hierges, d'ailleurs commune à la plupart des grottes de Karst couvert, est l'important remblayage argileux, réduisant de vastes galeries à l'état de laminoirs très bas où l'on avance à grand-peine.
Ces systèmes karstiques (Trampot dans la Meuse et Cul du Cerf dans la Haute-Marne) sont encore assez mal connus […]. En effet, il semble exister un karst commun présentant un écoulement inverse au pendage et uniquement lié au gradient hydraulique (Cul du Cerf), et selon les couches, un karst présentant un écoulement conforme au pendage et marqué par la st…
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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