Krug
\kʁuːk\
The verdict
“Krug” is uncommon French (frequency #50,319 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,319
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bac, baquet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-krug · Krug · French
Krug · rank #50,319 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,319
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH Kaufmann
Nearest frequency peer: Kaufmann (-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 « Krug »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Kampala
Kampala
49,685 corpus weight
- Katarina
Katarina
49,684 corpus weight
- Kaufmann
Kaufmann
49,683 corpus weight
- Krug
Krug
49,682 corpus weight
- kystes
kystes
49,681 corpus weight
- lacustre
lacustre
49,680 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Krug » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Krug |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁuːk\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #50,319 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Krug » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Krug is uncommon French at frequency #50,319 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁuːk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Krug, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 Krug, spelled K-R-U-G.
Definition
- 1Bac, baquet.
- 2Pot.
- 3Cruche.
- 4Auberge.
- 5Tanguer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Krug appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Als Gauß ihn sah, bekam er einen Wutanfall: Er zerbrach einen auf dem Fensterbrett stehenden Krug, stampfte mit dem Fuß und schlug um sich.
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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