kima
The verdict
“kima” is uncommon French (frequency #98,147 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,147
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bourgeon, branchette.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kima · kima · French
kima · rank #98,147 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,147
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kickboxing
Nearest frequency peer: kickboxing (-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 « kima »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- kis
kis
1,851 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « kima » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kima |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #98,147 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « kima » en français
Rare enough to double-check
kima is uncommon French at frequency #98,147 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
kima doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented 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 kima, spelled K-I-M-A.
Definition
- 1Bourgeon, branchette.
- 2Crin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how kima appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
pago eta haritzak, kima bakoitzean elurrez apainduak.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).