Kitzbühel
The verdict
“Kitzbühel” is uncommon French (frequency #72,468 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,468
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville autrichienne du Tyrol, station de sports d'hiver axée principalement sur le ski alpin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kitzbuhel · Kitzbühel · French
Kitzbühel · rank #72,468 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,468
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH Kombouaré
Nearest frequency peer: Kombouaré (+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 « Kitzbühel »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Kenyon
Kenyon
27,538 corpus weight
- khâgne
khâgne
27,536 corpus weight
- kikoo
kikoo
27,535 corpus weight
- Kitzbühel
Kitzbühel
27,533 corpus weight
- Kombouaré
Kombouaré
27,532 corpus weight
- kronos
kronos
27,529 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Kitzbühel » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kitzbühel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #72,468 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Kitzbühel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Kitzbühel is uncommon French at frequency #72,468 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville autrichienne du Tyrol, station de sports d'hiver axée principalement sur le ski alpin.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Kitzbühel in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Kitzbühel, spelled K-I-T-Z-B-Ü-H-E-L.
Definition
- 1Ville autrichienne du Tyrol, station de sports d'hiver axée principalement sur le ski alpin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Kitzbühel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
– Tu dois aller représenter la Pologne aux épreuves de ski de Kitzbuhel…
Deux mois après sa double victoire dans la descente de Kitzbühel, puis une blessure au mollet survenue le 16 février, Cyprien Sarrazin va enfin rechausser les skis ce week-end pour les finales de la Coupe du monde à Saalbach (Autriche).
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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