Kitano
The verdict
“Kitano” is uncommon French (frequency #74,126 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,126
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kitano · Kitano · French
Kitano · rank #74,126 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,126
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kisses
Nearest frequency peer: kisses (-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 « Kitano »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- khalife
khalife
25,878 corpus weight
- kilowatt
kilowatt
25,877 corpus weight
- kisses
kisses
25,876 corpus weight
- Kitano
Kitano
25,875 corpus weight
- Kittel
Kittel
25,874 corpus weight
- knut
knut
25,872 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Kitano » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kitano |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,126 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Kitano » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Kitano is uncommon French at frequency #74,126 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Kitano has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Kitano, spelled K-I-T-A-N-O.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Kitano appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Effectivement, ce sont surtout les grands noms du 7ᵉ art qui marquent les esprits, avec le retour du Japonais Takeshi Kitano, de l’Allemand Wim Wenders, du Finlandais Aki Kaurismäki ou du Vietnamien Tran Anh Hùng, dont les festivaliers seront ravis de découvrir les nouvelles œuvres après une longue absence.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).