knife
\naɪf\
The verdict
“knife” is uncommon French (frequency #54,678 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,678
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Couteau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-knife · knife · French
knife · rank #54,678 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,678
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kieffer
Nearest frequency peer: kieffer (-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 « knife »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- kaléidoscope
kaléidoscope
45,330 corpus weight
- Keira
Keira
45,325 corpus weight
- kieffer
kieffer
45,324 corpus weight
- knife
knife
45,323 corpus weight
- Konan
Konan
45,322 corpus weight
- Kraus
Kraus
45,320 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « knife » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | knife |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \naɪf\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #54,678 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « knife » en français
Rare enough to double-check
knife is uncommon French at frequency #54,678 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \naɪf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Couteau.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for knife, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is knife, spelled K-N-I-F-E.
Definition
- 1Couteau.
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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