kayaks
\ka.jak\
The verdict
“kayaks” is uncommon French (frequency #81,292 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,292
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de kayak.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kayaks · kayaks · French
kayaks · rank #81,292 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,292
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH Kananga
Nearest frequency peer: Kananga (-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 « kayaks »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- kaas
kaas
18,712 corpus weight
- Kaiserslaut…
Kaiserslautern
18,711 corpus weight
- Kananga
Kananga
18,710 corpus weight
- kayaks
kayaks
18,709 corpus weight
- kinésiologie
kinésiologie
18,707 corpus weight
- klum
klum
18,705 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « kayaks » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kayaks |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.jak\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #81,292 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « kayaks » en français
Rare enough to double-check
kayaks is uncommon French at frequency #81,292 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.jak\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de kayak.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for kayaks, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 kayaks, spelled K-A-Y-A-K-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de kayak.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).