koalas
\kɔ.a.la\
The verdict
“koalas” is uncommon French (frequency #66,049 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,049
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de koala.
Corpus desk
Index FR-koalas · koalas · French
koalas · rank #66,049 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,049
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kes
Nearest frequency peer: kes (-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 « koalas »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Kass
Kass
33,954 corpus weight
- kes
kes
33,953 corpus weight
- koalas
koalas
33,952 corpus weight
- kolo
kolo
33,951 corpus weight
- kono
kono
33,950 corpus weight
- Korean
Korean
33,949 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « koalas » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | koalas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.a.la\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #66,049 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « koalas » en français
Rare enough to double-check
koalas is uncommon French at frequency #66,049 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.a.la\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de koala.".
No misspelling variants are generated for koalas in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is koalas, spelled K-O-A-L-A-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de koala.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how koalas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est un parc animalier connu dans la région non pas pour les koalas seulement, mais aussi pour ses nombreux animaux australiens.
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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