killa
\ki.la\
The verdict
“killa” is uncommon French (frequency #80,346 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,346
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de killer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-killa · killa · French
killa · rank #80,346 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,346
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kidnappeurs
Nearest frequency peer: kidnappeurs (-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 « killa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- khatib
khatib
19,658 corpus weight
- kidnappeurs
kidnappeurs
19,656 corpus weight
- killa
killa
19,655 corpus weight
- kot
kot
19,653 corpus weight
- laboratories
laboratories
19,652 corpus weight
- Laborie
Laborie
19,651 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « killa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | killa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ki.la\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #80,346 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « killa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
killa is uncommon French at frequency #80,346 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ki.la\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de killer.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for killa in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is killa, spelled K-I-L-L-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de killer.
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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