kone
\ˈko.ne\
The verdict
“kone” is uncommon French (frequency #74,130 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,130
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Machine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kone · kone · French
kone · rank #74,130 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,130
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH knut
Nearest frequency peer: knut (-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 « kone »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Kitano
Kitano
25,875 corpus weight
- Kittel
Kittel
25,874 corpus weight
- knut
knut
25,872 corpus weight
- kone
kone
25,871 corpus weight
- koto
koto
25,870 corpus weight
- laa
laa
25,867 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « kone » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kone |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈko.ne\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #74,130 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « kone » en français
Rare enough to double-check
kone is uncommon French at frequency #74,130 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈko.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for kone in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is kone, spelled K-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1Machine.
- 2Appareil.
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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