koen
The verdict
“koen” is uncommon French (frequency #58,050 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,050
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hardi, intrépide, vaillant, valeureux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-koen · koen · French
koen · rank #58,050 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,050
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH jurait
Nearest frequency peer: jurait (-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 « koen »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- jugeote
jugeote
41,955 corpus weight
- junker
junker
41,954 corpus weight
- jurait
jurait
41,952 corpus weight
- koen
koen
41,951 corpus weight
- kush
kush
41,949 corpus weight
- Laflamme
Laflamme
41,947 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « koen » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | koen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #58,050 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « koen » en français
Rare enough to double-check
koen is uncommon French at frequency #58,050 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for koen in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our 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 best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is koen, spelled K-O-E-N.
Definition
- 1Hardi, intrépide, vaillant, valeureux.
- 2Preux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how koen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
een koene ridder
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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