kol
\kɔl\
The verdict
“kol” is uncommon French (frequency #50,931 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,931
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Senne utilisé par les Hollandais pour la pêche à la morue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kol · kol · French
kol · rank #50,931 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,931
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kidnappés
Nearest frequency peer: kidnappés (-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 « kol »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- kevlar
kevlar
49,073 corpus weight
- kHz
kHz
49,072 corpus weight
- kidnappés
kidnappés
49,071 corpus weight
- kol
kol
49,070 corpus weight
- Kowalski
Kowalski
49,069 corpus weight
- lactation
lactation
49,068 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « kol » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kol |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔl\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #50,931 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « kol » en français
Rare enough to double-check
kol is uncommon French at frequency #50,931 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Senne utilisé par les Hollandais pour la pêche à la morue.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for kol, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is kol, spelled K-O-L.
Definition
- 1Senne utilisé par les Hollandais pour la pêche à la morue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how kol appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
... les Hollandois (sic), en prennent avec de grands filets qu’ils nomment kol, ...
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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