kidnappeur
\kid.na.pœʁ\
The verdict
“kidnappeur” is uncommon French (frequency #86,853 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,853
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui pratique le kidnapping. Personne qui enlève un enfant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kidnappeur · kidnappeur · French
kidnappeur · rank #86,853 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,853
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kenyane
Nearest frequency peer: kenyane (-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 « kidnappeur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Kelso
Kelso
13,151 corpus weight
- Kenan
Kenan
13,150 corpus weight
- kenyane
kenyane
13,149 corpus weight
- kidnappeur
kidnappeur
13,148 corpus weight
- KPI
KPI
13,146 corpus weight
- Kribi
Kribi
13,145 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « kidnappeur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kidnappeur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kid.na.pœʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #86,853 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « kidnappeur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
kidnappeur is uncommon French at frequency #86,853 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kid.na.pœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne qui pratique le kidnapping. Personne qui enlève un enfant.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for kidnappeur in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is kidnappeur, spelled K-I-D-N-A-P-P-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Personne qui pratique le kidnapping. Personne qui enlève un enfant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how kidnappeur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais s’il voulait se choper la fille de Belli, l’enlèvement n’est plus aléatoire et donc le kidnappeur doit nécessairement être en possession de quelques informations fondamentales pour agir.
Synonyms
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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