Krivine
\kʁi.vin\
The verdict
“Krivine” is uncommon French (frequency #97,086 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,086
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-krivine · Krivine · French
Krivine · rank #97,086 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,086
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kristeva
Nearest frequency peer: kristeva (-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 « Krivine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- kosmos
kosmos
2,919 corpus weight
- Koulibaly
Koulibaly
2,918 corpus weight
- kristeva
kristeva
2,916 corpus weight
- Krivine
Krivine
2,915 corpus weight
- labial
labial
2,913 corpus weight
- lagunaire
lagunaire
2,909 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Krivine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Krivine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kʁi.vin\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #97,086 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Krivine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Krivine is uncommon French at frequency #97,086 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \kʁi.vin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Krivine has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Krivine, spelled K-R-I-V-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
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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