klezmer
\klɛs.mɛʁ\
The verdict
“klezmer” is uncommon French (frequency #89,851 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,851
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie la musique juive d’Europe centrale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-klezmer · klezmer · French
klezmer · rank #89,851 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,851
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kham
Nearest frequency peer: kham (-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 « klezmer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Junge
Junge
10,155 corpus weight
- kantienne
kantienne
10,154 corpus weight
- kaos
kaos
10,153 corpus weight
- kham
kham
10,151 corpus weight
- klezmer
klezmer
10,150 corpus weight
- knack
knack
10,149 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « klezmer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | klezmer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \klɛs.mɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #89,851 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « klezmer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
klezmer is uncommon French at frequency #89,851 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \klɛs.mɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qualifie la musique juive d’Europe centrale.".
klezmer doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 klezmer, spelled K-L-E-Z-M-E-R.
Definition
- 1Qualifie la musique juive d’Europe centrale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how klezmer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Beaucoup de juifs découvraient la musique klezmer d’Europe de l’Est, celle de nos grands-parents et arrière-grands-parents.
Quand l’assemblée ivre ne prêtait plus l’oreille à nos mélodies, notre violoniste se lançait dans des morceaux de musique klezmer endiablés. Il était juif d’une vieille famille de Bessarabie. Je voyais ses lèvres murmurer des chants en yiddish.
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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