keirin
\ke.ʁin\
The verdict
“keirin” is uncommon French (frequency #97,074 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,074
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Course cycliste sur piste dans laquelle les concurrents s’élancent derrière un vélomoteur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-keirin · keirin · French
keirin · rank #97,074 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,074
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH keck
Nearest frequency peer: keck (-2 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 « keirin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- kabuto
kabuto
2,933 corpus weight
- keck
keck
2,929 corpus weight
- keirin
keirin
2,927 corpus weight
- khédive
khédive
2,924 corpus weight
- Koehler
Koehler
2,922 corpus weight
- kosmos
kosmos
2,919 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « keirin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | keirin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ke.ʁin\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #97,074 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « keirin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
keirin is uncommon French at frequency #97,074 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ke.ʁin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Course cycliste sur piste dans laquelle les concurrents s’élancent derrière un vélomoteur.".
No misspelling variants are generated for keirin in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is keirin, spelled K-E-I-R-I-N.
Definition
- 1Course cycliste sur piste dans laquelle les concurrents s’élancent derrière un vélomoteur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how keirin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une année supplémentaire de préparation Ce report d’un an des JO de Tokyo a donc été une bénédiction pour celui qui a pris le 13e rang du keirin à Rio, en 2016.
Médaillée de bronze dans l’épreuve du keirin à Tokyo, la pistarde s’est accordé trois semaines de congé d’entrainement pour passer du temps avec sa famille et ses amis qu’elle n’avait pas vus depuis six mois.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).