khalife
\ka.lif\
The verdict
“khalife” is uncommon French (frequency #74,123 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,123
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de calife.
Corpus desk
Index FR-khalife · khalife · French
khalife · rank #74,123 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,123
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kilowatt
Nearest frequency peer: kilowatt (+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 « khalife »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Kaliningrad
Kaliningrad
25,882 corpus weight
- kazakhs
kazakhs
25,880 corpus weight
- khalife
khalife
25,878 corpus weight
- kilowatt
kilowatt
25,877 corpus weight
- kisses
kisses
25,876 corpus weight
- Kitano
Kitano
25,875 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « khalife » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | khalife |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.lif\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #74,123 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « khalife » en français
Rare enough to double-check
khalife is uncommon French at frequency #74,123 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.lif\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de calife.".
No misspelling variants are generated for khalife in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 khalife, spelled K-H-A-L-I-F-E.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de calife.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how khalife appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La gloire et les services du vainqueur de Babek offusquaient ce prince ombrageux. Il l’accusa de pratiquer le magisme du feu et d’avoir cherché à le rétablir en Perse. Accuser et condamner, c'était tout un pour le khalife : Afschin fut jeté en prison et mis à mort.
Les khalifes du temps jadis n’avaient point besoin des représentations du peuple.
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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