kettle
\kɛt.lə\
The verdict
“kettle” is uncommon French (frequency #91,858 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,858
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite doline d’origine périglaciaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kettle · kettle · French
kettle · rank #91,858 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,858
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH Kirkpatrick
Nearest frequency peer: Kirkpatrick (+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 « kettle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- kalachnikovs
kalachnikovs
8,149 corpus weight
- Kerbrat
Kerbrat
8,146 corpus weight
- kettle
kettle
8,143 corpus weight
- Kirkpatrick
Kirkpatrick
8,141 corpus weight
- kizomba
kizomba
8,140 corpus weight
- Kraemer
Kraemer
8,138 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « kettle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kettle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɛt.lə\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #91,858 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « kettle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
kettle is uncommon French at frequency #91,858 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɛt.lə\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petite doline d’origine périglaciaire.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for kettle, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 kettle, spelled K-E-T-T-L-E.
Definition
- 1Petite doline d’origine périglaciaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how kettle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces tassements se traduisent par l’existence de formes circulaires en chaudron appelés kettles occupées par des tourbières sur l'emplacement des cavités laissées par la glace morte .
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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