killed
The verdict
“killed” is uncommon French (frequency #69,961 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,961
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prétérit et participe passé du verbe kill.
Corpus desk
Index FR-killed · killed · French
killed · rank #69,961 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,961
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH Kenza
Nearest frequency peer: Kenza (-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 « killed »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- kaz
kaz
30,042 corpus weight
- Kenza
Kenza
30,041 corpus weight
- killed
killed
30,040 corpus weight
- kimonos
kimonos
30,039 corpus weight
- Knoll
Knoll
30,038 corpus weight
- kondo
kondo
30,037 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « killed » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | killed |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #69,961 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « killed » en français
Rare enough to double-check
killed is uncommon French at frequency #69,961 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prétérit et participe passé du verbe kill.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for killed, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 killed, spelled K-I-L-L-E-D.
Definition
- 1Prétérit et participe passé du verbe kill.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how killed appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I shouted out, "Who killed the Kennedys?" When after all It was you and me
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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