kickboxing
\kik.bɔk.siŋ\
The verdict
“kickboxing” is uncommon French (frequency #98,146 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,146
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de kick boxing.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kickboxing · kickboxing · French
kickboxing · rank #98,146 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,146
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH khi
Nearest frequency peer: khi (-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 « kickboxing »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- kermesses
kermesses
1,858 corpus weight
- Ketty
Ketty
1,857 corpus weight
- khi
khi
1,856 corpus weight
- kickboxing
kickboxing
1,855 corpus weight
- kima
kima
1,854 corpus weight
- kinase
kinase
1,852 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « kickboxing » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kickboxing |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kik.bɔk.siŋ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #98,146 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « kickboxing » en français
Rare enough to double-check
kickboxing is uncommon French at frequency #98,146 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kik.bɔk.siŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de kick boxing.".
No misspelling variants are generated for kickboxing in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is kickboxing, spelled K-I-C-K-B-O-X-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de kick boxing.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how kickboxing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il avait gagné sa qualification pour la ceinture noire de kickboxing avant de quitter le Savoy.
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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