krill
\kʁil\
The verdict
“krill” is uncommon French (frequency #71,650 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,650
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom générique de petites crevettes des eaux froides, de la famille des euphausiacés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-krill · krill · French
krill · rank #71,650 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,650
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH Kraftwerk
Nearest frequency peer: Kraftwerk (-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 « krill »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- keuf
keuf
28,356 corpus weight
- kirghize
kirghize
28,355 corpus weight
- Kisangani
Kisangani
28,354 corpus weight
- Kraftwerk
Kraftwerk
28,352 corpus weight
- krill
krill
28,351 corpus weight
- kubo
kubo
28,349 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « krill » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | krill |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁil\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #71,650 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « krill » en français
Rare enough to double-check
krill is uncommon French at frequency #71,650 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom générique de petites crevettes des eaux froides, de la famille des euphausiacés.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for krill in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is krill, spelled K-R-I-L-L.
Definition
- 1Nom générique de petites crevettes des eaux froides, de la famille des euphausiacés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how krill appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le mot krill est utilisé par les baleiniers pour désigner les milliards d'animaux planctoniques qui constituent la nourriture des baleines.
Les eaux australes nourrissent en étoiles de mers, oursins, algues, invertébrés microscopiques, planctons et krills (près de 500 millions de tonnes), deux cents espèces de poissons, baleines, phoques, manchots et autres oiseaux migrateurs.
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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