khôl
\kol\
The verdict
“khôl” is uncommon French (frequency #99,259 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,259
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poudre cosmétique composée (aujourd’hui) d’un mélange de galène, de malachite et de soufre, stabilisée dans une base grasse, et utilisée pour maquiller les yeux (l’antimoine n’est plus utilisé en c...
Corpus desk
Index FR-khol · khôl · French
khôl · rank #99,259 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,259
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH knowing
Nearest frequency peer: knowing (+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 « khôl »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- kanon
kanon
748 corpus weight
- kassos
kassos
747 corpus weight
- katiba
katiba
746 corpus weight
- khôl
khôl
742 corpus weight
- knowing
knowing
741 corpus weight
- koli
koli
738 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « khôl » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | khôl |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kol\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #99,259 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « khôl » en français
Rare enough to double-check
khôl is uncommon French at frequency #99,259 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kol\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Poudre cosmétique composée (aujourd’hui) d’un mélange de galène, de malachite et de soufre, stabilisée dans une base grasse, et utilisée pour maquiller les yeux (l’antimoine n’est plus utilisé en c...".
No misspelling variants are generated for khôl in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is khôl, spelled K-H-Ô-L.
Definition
- 1Poudre cosmétique composée (aujourd’hui) d’un mélange de galène, de malachite et de soufre, stabilisée dans une base grasse, et utilisée pour maquiller les yeux (l’antimoine n’est plus utilisé en cosmétique en raison de sa forte toxicité).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how khôl appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le khôl rehausse et sublime l’œil en lui donnant du mystère et de la profondeur.
Il n'avait plus rien du cabotin miteux de tout à l'heure ; l'habit de soirée lui seyait à merveille, la fine barbiche noire allongeait avantageusement son visage et le léger trait de khôl lui donnait des yeux rêveurs d'amoureux.
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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