Kircher
The verdict
“Kircher” is uncommon French (frequency #96,051 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,051
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kircher · Kircher · French
Kircher · rank #96,051 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,051
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kook
Nearest frequency peer: kook (+2 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 « Kircher »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Kagoshima
Kagoshima
3,955 corpus weight
- kamoulox
kamoulox
3,954 corpus weight
- karman
karman
3,953 corpus weight
- Kircher
Kircher
3,950 corpus weight
- kook
kook
3,948 corpus weight
- kreutzer
kreutzer
3,945 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Kircher » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kircher |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #96,051 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Kircher » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Kircher is uncommon French at frequency #96,051 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Kircher in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Kircher, spelled K-I-R-C-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Kircher appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La rencontre passionnée entre une bourgeoise heureuse en ménage (Léa Drucker, impeccable comme toujours) et son beau-fils de 17 ans (Samuel Kircher, le frère de Paul, une découverte) coche toutes les cases.
Un homme-oiseau dont on découvre l’évolution est tout aussi étonnant que l’animal sauvage que devient le lycéen incarné par Paul Kircher.
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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