kook
\kuːk\
The verdict
“kook” is uncommon French (frequency #96,053 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,053
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne étrange, déraisonnée, excentrique, zigoto.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kook · kook · French
kook · rank #96,053 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,053
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH Kircher
Nearest frequency peer: Kircher (-2 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 « kook »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- kamoulox
kamoulox
3,954 corpus weight
- karman
karman
3,953 corpus weight
- Kircher
Kircher
3,950 corpus weight
- kook
kook
3,948 corpus weight
- kreutzer
kreutzer
3,945 corpus weight
- Kuomintang
Kuomintang
3,943 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « kook » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kook |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kuːk\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #96,053 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « kook » en français
Rare enough to double-check
kook is uncommon French at frequency #96,053 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kuːk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne étrange, déraisonnée, excentrique, zigoto.".
No misspelling variants are generated for kook in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is kook, spelled K-O-O-K.
Definition
- 1Personne étrange, déraisonnée, excentrique, zigoto.
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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