kizomba
\ki.zɔ̃.ba\
The verdict
“kizomba” is uncommon French (frequency #91,861 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,861
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genre musical originaire de l’Angola.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kizomba · kizomba · French
kizomba · rank #91,861 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,861
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH Kirkpatrick
Nearest frequency peer: Kirkpatrick (-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 « kizomba »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- labbe
labbe
8,136 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « kizomba » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kizomba |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ki.zɔ̃.ba\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #91,861 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « kizomba » en français
Rare enough to double-check
kizomba is uncommon French at frequency #91,861 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ki.zɔ̃.ba\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Genre musical originaire de l’Angola.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for kizomba, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 kizomba, spelled K-I-Z-O-M-B-A.
Definition
- 1Genre musical originaire de l’Angola.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how kizomba appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Enfin, à 19 h 30, les danseuses du groupe de danse sportive Marie Corregrafit, activité proposée à l’année par le CCS, inviteront le public à les rejoindre pour des musiques cosmopolites : de la danse irlandaise au charleston, en passant par le kizomba et les danses latines, de quoi ravir et faire se déhancher petits et grands !
This word in other languages
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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