Klondike
\klɔn.dajk\
The verdict
“Klondike” is uncommon French (frequency #77,647 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,647
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rivière du Nord-Ouest canadien, où a eu lieu une ruée vers l’or à la fin du XIXᵉ siècle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-klondike · Klondike · French
Klondike · rank #77,647 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,647
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH klaxonnent
Nearest frequency peer: klaxonnent (-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 « Klondike »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- keynésien
keynésien
22,358 corpus weight
- Kiara
Kiara
22,356 corpus weight
- klaxonnent
klaxonnent
22,355 corpus weight
- Klondike
Klondike
22,354 corpus weight
- knee
knee
22,353 corpus weight
- kore
kore
22,352 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Klondike » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Klondike |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \klɔn.dajk\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #77,647 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Klondike » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Klondike is uncommon French at frequency #77,647 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \klɔn.dajk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Klondike in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Klondike, spelled K-L-O-N-D-I-K-E.
Definition
- 1Rivière du Nord-Ouest canadien, où a eu lieu une ruée vers l’or à la fin du XIXᵉ siècle.
- 2Région du Yukon traversée par le Klondike.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Klondike appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pendant un mois, presque jour et nuit, installés au confluent de la Klondike et du fleuve Yukon, ils scient des planches et construisent des bâtisses.
Les autres descendaient du Far Nord et du Klondike, par les Montagnes Rocheuses et le fleuve Mackenzie. — (James Oliver Curwood, Kazan, 1914, traduit de l’anglais par P. Gruyer et L. Postif, Hachette, 1937, page 212)
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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