kirin
\ki.ʁin\
The verdict
“kirin” is uncommon French (frequency #76,727 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,727
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qilin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kirin · kirin · French
kirin · rank #76,727 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,727
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kidnappées
Nearest frequency peer: kidnappées (-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 « kirin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- keren
keren
23,279 corpus weight
- khao
khao
23,277 corpus weight
- kidnappées
kidnappées
23,275 corpus weight
- kirin
kirin
23,274 corpus weight
- klotz
klotz
23,272 corpus weight
- Krieg
Krieg
23,270 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « kirin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kirin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ki.ʁin\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #76,727 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « kirin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
kirin is uncommon French at frequency #76,727 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ki.ʁin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qilin.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for kirin in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 kirin, spelled K-I-R-I-N.
Definition
- 1Qilin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how kirin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une légende urbaine voudrait que le kirin (animal mythique chinois) qui sert de logo à cette marque reprenne la belle moustache de Glover.
Chacun savait que le célèbre pont était le point d’origine de toutes les routes de l’ancienne Edo. Il était aussi la base de référence moderne pour évaluer les distances. Ce point précis était le gros pilier supporté par deux kirin, des chevaux-dragons à l’air peu commode.
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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