knee
\niː\
The verdict
“knee” is uncommon French (frequency #77,648 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,648
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genou, articulation de la jambe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-knee · knee · French
knee · rank #77,648 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,648
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH Klondike
Nearest frequency peer: Klondike (-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 « knee »
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 « knee » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | knee |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \niː\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #77,648 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « knee » en français
Rare enough to double-check
knee is uncommon French at frequency #77,648 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \niː\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Genou, articulation de la jambe.".
knee has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is knee, spelled K-N-E-E.
Definition
- 1Genou, articulation de la jambe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how knee appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pegotty had a basket of refreshments on her knee, which would have lasted us out handsomely, if we had been going to London by the same conveyance.
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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