kas
\kas\
The verdict
“kas” is uncommon French (frequency #84,938 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,938
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Châssis recouvert d'un crible en toile métallique, destiné à filtrer l'eau sale issue de la trituration des chiffons.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kas · kas · French
kas · rank #84,938 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,938
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kain
Nearest frequency peer: kain (-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 « kas »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- justo
justo
15,069 corpus weight
- juxtaposées
juxtaposées
15,068 corpus weight
- kain
kain
15,064 corpus weight
- kas
kas
15,063 corpus weight
- Kaysersberg
Kaysersberg
15,060 corpus weight
- kirghizes
kirghizes
15,057 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « kas » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kas\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #84,938 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « kas » en français
Rare enough to double-check
kas is uncommon French at frequency #84,938 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Châssis recouvert d'un crible en toile métallique, destiné à filtrer l'eau sale issue de la trituration des chiffons.".
Zero misspellings are on record for kas in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 kas, spelled K-A-S.
Definition
- 1Châssis recouvert d'un crible en toile métallique, destiné à filtrer l'eau sale issue de la trituration des chiffons.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how kas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
… de l'eau sale dans laquelle les chiffons viennent d'être broyés ; pour cet effet on lui ménage une issue dans l'intérieur de chaque pile au-devant du bachat, & au travers d'une pièce qui se nomme le kas.
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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