Koekelberg
\ku.kəl.bɛʁɡ\
The verdict
“Koekelberg” is uncommon French (frequency #82,163 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,163
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille néerlandais de Flandre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-koekelberg · Koekelberg · French
Koekelberg · rank #82,163 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,163
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kitten
Nearest frequency peer: kitten (-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 « Koekelberg »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- karstique
karstique
17,843 corpus weight
- keum
keum
17,842 corpus weight
- Kew
Kew
17,841 corpus weight
- Keylor
Keylor
17,840 corpus weight
- kitten
kitten
17,839 corpus weight
- Koekelberg
Koekelberg
17,838 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Koekelberg » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Koekelberg |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ku.kəl.bɛʁɡ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #82,163 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Koekelberg » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Koekelberg is uncommon French at frequency #82,163 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ku.kəl.bɛʁɡ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille néerlandais de Flandre.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Koekelberg in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Koekelberg, spelled K-O-E-K-E-L-B-E-R-G.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille néerlandais de Flandre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Koekelberg appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Annemie Turtelboom a rendu un hommage appuyé à Fernand Koekelberg, « père de la réforme des polices à laquelle il s’est consacré corps et âme ».
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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