Korean
\kə.ˈɹi.ən\
The verdict
“Korean” is uncommon French (frequency #66,052 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,052
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Coréen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-korean · Korean · French
Korean · rank #66,052 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,052
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kono
Nearest frequency peer: kono (-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 « Korean »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- koalas
koalas
33,952 corpus weight
- kolo
kolo
33,951 corpus weight
- kono
kono
33,950 corpus weight
- Korean
Korean
33,949 corpus weight
- krystal
krystal
33,948 corpus weight
- Kuwait
Kuwait
33,947 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Korean » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Korean |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kə.ˈɹi.ən\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #66,052 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Korean » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Korean is uncommon French at frequency #66,052 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kə.ˈɹi.ən\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Coréen.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Korean in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Korean, spelled K-O-R-E-A-N.
Definition
- 1Coréen.
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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