krypton
\kʁip.tɔ̃\
The verdict
“krypton” is uncommon French (frequency #60,906 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,906
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Élément chimique de numéro atomique 36 et de symbole Kr qui fait partie de la série des gaz nobles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-krypton · krypton · French
krypton · rank #60,906 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,906
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH koji
Nearest frequency peer: koji (-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 « krypton »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Klimt
Klimt
39,099 corpus weight
- koji
koji
39,096 corpus weight
- krypton
krypton
39,095 corpus weight
- kryptonite
kryptonite
39,094 corpus weight
- Lacanau
Lacanau
39,093 corpus weight
- Lafrance
Lafrance
39,092 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « krypton » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | krypton |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁip.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #60,906 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « krypton » en français
Rare enough to double-check
krypton is uncommon French at frequency #60,906 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁip.tɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for krypton in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is krypton, spelled K-R-Y-P-T-O-N.
Definition
- 1Élément chimique de numéro atomique 36 et de symbole Kr qui fait partie de la série des gaz nobles.
- 2Gaz monoatomique de cet élément (Kr) incolore, inodore et chimiquement inerte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how krypton appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces résultats suggèrent aux deux géochimistes qu’avec la cristallisation de la pérovskite à partir de l’océan de magma en fusion, dans les tout premiers stades de l’histoire de la Terre, de l’argon et du krypton, mais très peu de xénon, ont été piégés dans le manteau inférieur.
Cela permettrait d’expliquer pourquoi le xénon est 20 fois moins abondant dans l’atmosphère que le néon, le krypton ou l’argon.
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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