Kohn

name

The verdict

“Kohn” is uncommon French (frequency #81,297 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#81,297
frequency rank, French
737
“K” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-kohn · Kohn · French

Kohn · rank #81,297 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #81,297
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 737
  • PHOTO-FINISH klum

Nearest frequency peer: klum (-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 « Kohn »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Kohn » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Kohn
PropertyValue
HeadwordKohn
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters4
Frequency rank#81,297
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Kohn » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).Kohntombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « klum » (#81,296), « Kouassi » (#81,298), « koweïtien » (#81,299). Parmi 737 lemmes en « K », « Kohn » est au #81,297. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Kohn is uncommon French at frequency #81,297 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Kohn, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Kohn, spelled K-O-H-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Kohn appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Mais attention « on peut aussi surinvestir cette phase virtuelle, et être déçu quand la rencontre réelle n’est pas à la hauteur de l’objectif fixé de se mettre en couple », décrypte Véronique Kohn.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Kohn"?
"Kohn" is spelled K-O-H-N.
What does "Kohn" mean?
As a proper noun, "Kohn" means: Nom de famille.
What language does "Kohn" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Kohn", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list