kir
\kiʁ\
The verdict
“kir” is uncommon French (frequency #56,704 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,704
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cocktail composé de crème de cassis et de vin blanc (du bourgogne aligoté).
Corpus desk
Index FR-kir · kir · French
kir · rank #56,704 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,704
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kimura
Nearest frequency peer: kimura (-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 « kir »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Kenyans
Kenyans
43,301 corpus weight
- kimura
kimura
43,298 corpus weight
- kir
kir
43,297 corpus weight
- kop
kop
43,296 corpus weight
- kopp
kopp
43,295 corpus weight
- Kwan
Kwan
43,293 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « kir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kiʁ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #56,704 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « kir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
kir is uncommon French at frequency #56,704 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kiʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cocktail composé de crème de cassis et de vin blanc (du bourgogne aligoté).".
No misspelling variants are generated for kir in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 kir, spelled K-I-R.
Definition
- 1Cocktail composé de crème de cassis et de vin blanc (du bourgogne aligoté).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how kir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle l'écoutait à peine, encore bouleversée par ce qui venait de se passer. Et les deux Kir qu'elle avait bus coup sur coup achevaient de l'étourdir. – Un autre Kir ? Mais si, voyons… avec moi…
Mais les traditions avaient la vie dure; les hommes se retrouvaient toujours pour une partie de quilles ou d'anneaux avant d'aller boire un pontarlier ou un kir au café.
This word in other languages
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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