kibboutz
\ki.buts\
The verdict
“kibboutz” is uncommon French (frequency #54,061 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,061
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Collectivité juive créée, en Israël, par le mouvement sioniste sous l'influence des idées du socialisme associatif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kibboutz · kibboutz · French
kibboutz · rank #54,061 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,061
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kawaii
Nearest frequency peer: kawaii (-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 « kibboutz »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- kari
kari
45,944 corpus weight
- Katerine
Katerine
45,943 corpus weight
- kawaii
kawaii
45,942 corpus weight
- kibboutz
kibboutz
45,940 corpus weight
- klaxonner
klaxonner
45,938 corpus weight
- koko
koko
45,937 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « kibboutz » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kibboutz |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ki.buts\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #54,061 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « kibboutz » en français
Rare enough to double-check
kibboutz is uncommon French at frequency #54,061 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ki.buts\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Collectivité juive créée, en Israël, par le mouvement sioniste sous l'influence des idées du socialisme associatif.".
kibboutz doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is kibboutz, spelled K-I-B-B-O-U-T-Z.
Definition
- 1Collectivité juive créée, en Israël, par le mouvement sioniste sous l'influence des idées du socialisme associatif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how kibboutz appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aujourd’hui, on trouve des traces de l’utopie fouriériste dans le mouvement des SCOP (sociétés coopératives et participatives) comme dans le modèle du kibboutz en Israël ou les expériences locales qui surgissent ici ou là.
Sachant que j’étais juif, il avait ajouté : « Après l’indépendance, nous devrons envoyer des missions en Israël », et, comme je m’étonnais : « Oui, nous avons énormément à apprendre d’eux. — En quel domaine ? demandai-je. — Oh, les kibboutzim, l’irrigation, l’afforestation, l’amélioration des sols. »
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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