koba
\ko˩.ba˩\
The verdict
“koba” is uncommon French (frequency #61,640 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,640
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Infinitif de -ba.
Corpus desk
Index FR-koba · koba · French
koba · rank #61,640 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,640
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kota
Nearest frequency peer: kota (+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 « koba »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- keyboard
keyboard
38,366 corpus weight
- kip
kip
38,364 corpus weight
- koba
koba
38,361 corpus weight
- kota
kota
38,360 corpus weight
- Krantz
Krantz
38,359 corpus weight
- lack
lack
38,356 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « koba » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | koba |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ko˩.ba˩\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #61,640 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « koba » en français
Rare enough to double-check
koba is uncommon French at frequency #61,640 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ko˩.ba˩\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Infinitif de -ba.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for koba, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, 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 best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is koba, spelled K-O-B-A.
Definition
- 1Infinitif de -ba.
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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