kidnappings
\kid.na.piŋ\
The verdict
“kidnappings” is uncommon French (frequency #90,860 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,860
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de kidnapping.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kidnappings · kidnappings · French
kidnappings · rank #90,860 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,860
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kidnappent
Nearest frequency peer: kidnappent (-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 « kidnappings »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Kees
Kees
9,145 corpus weight
- kept
kept
9,144 corpus weight
- kidnappent
kidnappent
9,142 corpus weight
- kidnappings
kidnappings
9,141 corpus weight
- kiffant
kiffant
9,140 corpus weight
- Köln
Köln
9,137 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « kidnappings » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kidnappings |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kid.na.piŋ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #90,860 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « kidnappings » en français
Rare enough to double-check
kidnappings is uncommon French at frequency #90,860 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kid.na.piŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de kidnapping.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for kidnappings, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 kidnappings, spelled K-I-D-N-A-P-P-I-N-G-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de kidnapping.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how kidnappings appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces dernières semaines, en voiture, je lui ai souvent parlé de kidnappings.
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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