kraken
\kʁa.kɛn\
The verdict
“kraken” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,134. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,134
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Créature fantastique représentée sous la forme d’une pieuvre géante, dans les légendes scandinaves médiévales.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kraken · kraken · French
kraken · rank #45,134 · 9 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #45,134
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kiwis
Nearest frequency peer: kiwis (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « kraken »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- kar
kar
54,871 corpus weight
- kiwis
kiwis
54,868 corpus weight
- kraken
kraken
54,867 corpus weight
- Kumar
Kumar
54,866 corpus weight
- labellisés
labellisés
54,864 corpus weight
- Lactalis
Lactalis
54,863 corpus weight
What this shows « kraken » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kraken |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁa.kɛn\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #45,134 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « kraken »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around kraken (IPA \kʁa.kɛn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #45,134 among 737 “K” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Créature fantastique représentée sous la forme d’une pieuvre géante, dans les légendes scandinaves médiévales.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for kraken, with forms such as "karken", "kkraken", and "kraekn". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Karen", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 kraken, spelled K-R-A-K-E-N.
Definition
- 1Créature fantastique représentée sous la forme d’une pieuvre géante, dans les légendes scandinaves médiévales.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how kraken appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’existence du kraken, même si, nuance, il s’agissait ici d’un calmar et non d’un poulpe, prenait alors de la consistance sauf que, hélas pour les amateurs de mystérieux, on dut convenir par la suite qu’il s’agissait d’un canular.
On eût dit des espèces de monstres, dragons à queue de serpent, hippogriffes aux larges ailes, krakens gigantesques, vampires énormes, qui s’abattaient comme pour le saisir de leurs griffes ou l’engloutir dans leurs mâchoires.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- karken
- kkraken
- kraekn
- krakenn
- krakken
- krakne
- krkaen
- krraken
- rkaken
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of kraken - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).