khâgne
\kaɲ\
The verdict
“khâgne” is uncommon French (frequency #72,465 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,465
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dans les lycées français, deuxième année de classe préparatoire littéraire aux concours des ENS et aux grandes écoles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-khagne · khâgne · French
khâgne · rank #72,465 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,465
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kikoo
Nearest frequency peer: kikoo (+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 « khâgne »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Katya
Katya
27,540 corpus weight
- Kenyon
Kenyon
27,538 corpus weight
- khâgne
khâgne
27,536 corpus weight
- kikoo
kikoo
27,535 corpus weight
- Kitzbühel
Kitzbühel
27,533 corpus weight
- Kombouaré
Kombouaré
27,532 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « khâgne » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | khâgne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaɲ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #72,465 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « khâgne » en français
Rare enough to double-check
khâgne is uncommon French at frequency #72,465 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kaɲ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dans les lycées français, deuxième année de classe préparatoire littéraire aux concours des ENS et aux grandes écoles.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for khâgne, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is khâgne, spelled K-H-Â-G-N-E.
Definition
- 1Dans les lycées français, deuxième année de classe préparatoire littéraire aux concours des ENS et aux grandes écoles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how khâgne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La khâgne vit comme une société fermée, hiérarchisée, avec ses rites, son hymne, son langage, ses fétiches, son initiation. Le respect est dû aux anciens qui redoublent ou qui triplent – les kharrés et les khubes, sans parler des rares « archikhubes » qui ont réussi à « intégrer » l’École.
Sabine Pallières est la mère d’un crétin en duffle-coat vert sapin qui, après ses deux khâgnes et Sciences-Po, ira probablement diffuser la médiocrité de ses petites pensées dans un cabinet ministériel de droite.
Synonyms
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).