kryptonite
\kʁip.tɔ.nit\
The verdict
“kryptonite” is uncommon French (frequency #60,907 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,907
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Roche imaginaire, radioactive, d’origine météoritique pouvant affecter Superman, autrement invulnérable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kryptonite · kryptonite · French
kryptonite · rank #60,907 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,907
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH krypton
Nearest frequency peer: krypton (-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 « kryptonite »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- Lage
Lage
39,091 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « kryptonite » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kryptonite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁip.tɔ.nit\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #60,907 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « kryptonite » en français
Rare enough to double-check
kryptonite is uncommon French at frequency #60,907 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁip.tɔ.nit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for kryptonite, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is kryptonite, spelled K-R-Y-P-T-O-N-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Roche imaginaire, radioactive, d’origine météoritique pouvant affecter Superman, autrement invulnérable.
- 2Tout élément qui neutralise un pouvoir ou constitue un point faible.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how kryptonite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La kryptonite a tout d’abord été inventée non pas dans la version des magazines, mais dans l’émission de radio «The Adventures of Superman» en juin 1943, cette matière dangereuse sera intégrée dans les comics en novembre 1949.
Le problème majeur du traitement de l’allongement compensatoire dans une théorie paralléliste provient donc du Poids par Position, qui possède les mêmes effets sur l’allongement compensatoire que la kryptonite sur Superman en ce qu’elle inhibe l’expression de son pouvoir.
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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