Kirkpatrick
The verdict
“Kirkpatrick” is uncommon French (frequency #91,860 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,860
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kirkpatrick · Kirkpatrick · French
Kirkpatrick · rank #91,860 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,860
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kizomba
Nearest frequency peer: kizomba (+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 « Kirkpatrick »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Kerbrat
Kerbrat
8,146 corpus weight
- kettle
kettle
8,143 corpus weight
- Kirkpatrick
Kirkpatrick
8,141 corpus weight
- kizomba
kizomba
8,140 corpus weight
- Kraemer
Kraemer
8,138 corpus weight
- Kurzweil
Kurzweil
8,137 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Kirkpatrick » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kirkpatrick |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #91,860 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Kirkpatrick » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Kirkpatrick is uncommon French at frequency #91,860 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Kirkpatrick in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Kirkpatrick, spelled K-I-R-K-P-A-T-R-I-C-K.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Kirkpatrick appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Justin Timberlake, Lance Bass, Chris Kirkpatrick, Joey Fatone et JC Chasez n’ont pas pris une ride (ou presque) et ont fait une apparition publique remarquée aux derniers MTV Video Music Awards.
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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