kevlar
\kɛv.laʁ\
The verdict
“kevlar” is uncommon French (frequency #50,928 among 110,375 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,928
- frequency rank, French
- 110,375
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Fibre synthétique de poly-para-phénylène téréphtalamide (PPD-T), polymère thermoplastique appartenant à la famille des aramides, résistant à la chaleur, à l'élongation, au cisaillement ou à certain...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kevlar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɛv.laʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,928 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “kevlar” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
kevlar is uncommon French at frequency #50,928 among 110,375 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɛv.laʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fibre synthétique de poly-para-phénylène téréphtalamide (PPD-T), polymère thermoplastique appartenant à la famille des aramides, résistant à la chaleur, à l'élongation, au cisaillement ou à certain...".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for kevlar, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 kevlar, spelled K-E-V-L-A-R.
Definition
- 1Fibre synthétique de poly-para-phénylène téréphtalamide (PPD-T), polymère thermoplastique appartenant à la famille des aramides, résistant à la chaleur, à l'élongation, au cisaillement ou à certaines attaques chimiques et utilisé pour la confection de gilets pare-balles, casques, renforts de vêtements et vêtements protecteurs (pull-overs, T-shirts, robes, pantalons), voiles et coques de bateaux, équipements sportifs (patinage de vitesse, snowboard, ski, canoë-kayak, escrime, raquettes et cordage, pelote basque, aviron,...) et de spectacle (jonglage, torches, bâtons du diable, bolas), ainsi que technique (membranes d'haut-parleurs) ou les domaines aéronautique, aérospatial, du bâtiment (haute sécurité) et des pneumatiques entre-autres.
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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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Using “kevlar”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is K-E-V-L-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kɛv.laʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.