Kiribati
\ki.ʁi.ba.ti\
The verdict
“Kiribati” is uncommon French (frequency #67,637 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,637
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Archipel d’Océanie, situé à cheval sur l’Équateur et l’antiméridien, à la fois en Polynésie et en Micronésie, au sud des îles Marshall et de Hawaï et au nord des Tuvalu, des Samoa, des îles Cook et...
Corpus desk
Index FR-kiribati · Kiribati · French
Kiribati · rank #67,637 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,637
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kinky
Nearest frequency peer: kinky (-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 « Kiribati »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Kharkov
Kharkov
32,366 corpus weight
- kinky
kinky
32,365 corpus weight
- Kiribati
Kiribati
32,364 corpus weight
- klingon
klingon
32,363 corpus weight
- klub
klub
32,362 corpus weight
- Krim
Krim
32,360 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Kiribati » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kiribati |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ki.ʁi.ba.ti\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #67,637 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Kiribati » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Kiribati is uncommon French at frequency #67,637 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ki.ʁi.ba.ti\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Kiribati doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Kiribati, spelled K-I-R-I-B-A-T-I.
Definition
- 1Archipel d’Océanie, situé à cheval sur l’Équateur et l’antiméridien, à la fois en Polynésie et en Micronésie, au sud des îles Marshall et de Hawaï et au nord des Tuvalu, des Samoa, des îles Cook et de la Polynésie française.
- 2État occupant ces îles et ayant pour capitale Tarawa-Sud.
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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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