kop
\kɔp\
The verdict
“kop” is uncommon French (frequency #56,705 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,705
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tribune où se regroupent les supporters d’un club.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kop · kop · French
kop · rank #56,705 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,705
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kir
Nearest frequency peer: kir (-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 « kop »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- kimura
kimura
43,298 corpus weight
- kir
kir
43,297 corpus weight
- kop
kop
43,296 corpus weight
- kopp
kopp
43,295 corpus weight
- Kwan
Kwan
43,293 corpus weight
- Lacq
Lacq
43,292 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « kop » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kop |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔp\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #56,705 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « kop » en français
Rare enough to double-check
kop is uncommon French at frequency #56,705 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
kop doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is kop, spelled K-O-P.
Definition
- 1Tribune où se regroupent les supporters d’un club.
- 2Groupe de supporters exaltés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how kop appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Journaliste et familier du « kop » (la tribune populaire où s’installent les spectateurs les plus acharnés) du Red Star de Saint-Ouen, Mickaël Correia a fait de son engagement sportif une démarche quasi citoyenne.
Des sifflets permanents quand la Roja jouait à la baballe, un emballement à l’approche des buts d’Unai Simon et deux kops qui se répondaient en s’applaudissant.
This word in other languages
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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