kiosque
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,664
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
kiosque is aFrenchnoun. It means: Dans l’aménagement des parcs et jardins, pavillon pour l’agrément ou la musique, d’inspiration orientale, de structure légère et ouverte et de plan circulaire ou polygonal. Pronounced \kjɔsk\. Often confused with kiosques.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kiosque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kjɔsk\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #15,664 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for kiosque is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kjɔsk\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,664 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for kiosque, with forms such as "ikosque", "kioqsue", and "kiosqeu". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "kiosques", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is kiosque, spelled K-I-O-S-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dans l’aménagement des parcs et jardins, pavillon pour l’agrément ou la musique, d’inspiration orientale, de structure légère et ouverte et de plan circulaire ou polygonal.
- 2Construction similaire située dans un espace public ou à usage collectif (square, place, parc public, etc.), principalement à usage festif (musique, chant, …), éventuellement tournante, fermée de nuit ou démontable.
- 3Kiosque à journaux ; édicule de rue, à l’origine en forme de petit kiosque, servant de présentoir pour le commerce de la presse, fermé la nuit par des volets en bois ou en métal.
- 4Présentoir en forme de petit kiosque, souvent circulaire, destiné à la vente d’objets multiples : restauration en libre-service, cartes postales…
- 5Structure supérieure d’un sous-marin.
- 6Service de kiosque.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ikosque,kioqsue,kiosqeu,kiosqque,kiossque,kiosuqe,kisoque,kkiosque,koisque
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for kiosque
Misspelling Variants of "kiosque"
Frequency rank: #15,664 in French
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