kitchen

/\ˈkɪtʃ.ɪn\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#30,237

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

kitchen is aFrenchnoun. It means: Cuisine. Pronounced \ˈkɪtʃ.ɪn\.

Key facts for kitchen
PropertyValue
Headwordkitchen
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ˈkɪtʃ.ɪn\
Letters7
Frequency rank#30,237
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of kitchen in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for kitchen is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈkɪtʃ.ɪn\. Corpus data places it at rank #30,237 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Cuisine.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for kitchen, with forms such as "iktchen", "kicthen", and "kitcchen". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is kitchen, spelled K-I-T-C-H-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Cuisine.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: iktchen,kicthen,kitcchen,kitcehn,kitchenn,kitchhen,kitchne,kithcen,kittchen,kkitchen,ktichen

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for kitchen

Misspelling Variants of "kitchen"

iktchen7kicthen7kitcchen8kitcehn7kitchenn8kitchhen8kitchne7kithcen7
Misspelling Variants of "kitchen"

Frequency rank: #30,237 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "kitchen"?
"kitchen" is spelled K-I-T-C-H-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈkɪtʃ.ɪn\.
What does "kitchen" mean?
As a noun, "kitchen" means: Cuisine.
What are common misspellings of "kitchen"?
Common misspellings include "iktchen", "kicthen", "kitcchen", "kitcehn", "kitchenn". The correct spelling is "kitchen".
How do you pronounce "kitchen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "kitchen" is \ˈkɪtʃ.ɪn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "kitchen" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.