Kovacs
The verdict
“Kovacs” is uncommon French (frequency #69,965 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,965
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kovacs · Kovacs · French
Kovacs · rank #69,965 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,965
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kondo
Nearest frequency peer: kondo (-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 « Kovacs »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- kimonos
kimonos
30,039 corpus weight
- Knoll
Knoll
30,038 corpus weight
- kondo
kondo
30,037 corpus weight
- Kovacs
Kovacs
30,036 corpus weight
- kp
kp
30,035 corpus weight
- kutcher
kutcher
30,033 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Kovacs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kovacs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #69,965 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Kovacs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Kovacs is uncommon French at frequency #69,965 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Kovacs, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Kovacs, spelled K-O-V-A-C-S.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Kovacs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En riposte, le porte-parole du gouvernement hongrois, Zoltan Kovacs, a publié sur Twitter son propre rap, rédigé par ChatGPT, sur l’eurodéputé écologiste, qualifié de « combattant pour la démocratie ».
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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