Kenyans
\ke.njɑ̃\
The verdict
“Kenyans” is uncommon French (frequency #56,700 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,700
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de Kenyan.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kenyans · Kenyans · French
Kenyans · rank #56,700 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,700
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH Kearney
Nearest frequency peer: Kearney (-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 « Kenyans »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- kaito
kaito
43,305 corpus weight
- kanji
kanji
43,304 corpus weight
- Kearney
Kearney
43,303 corpus weight
- Kenyans
Kenyans
43,301 corpus weight
- kimura
kimura
43,298 corpus weight
- kir
kir
43,297 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Kenyans » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kenyans |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ke.njɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #56,700 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Kenyans » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Kenyans is uncommon French at frequency #56,700 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ke.njɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de Kenyan.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Kenyans, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Kenyans, spelled K-E-N-Y-A-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de Kenyan.
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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