kurde

/\kyʁd\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#15,665

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

kurde is aFrenchnoun. It means: Langue parlée au Kurdistan (Turquie, Iran, Iraq et Syrie). Elle fait partie de la famille des langues iraniennes (qui appartiennent au groupe indo-européen) et se compose de différents dialectes (v... Pronounced \kyʁd\. Often confused with kyrie and kurdes.

Key facts for kurde
PropertyValue
Headwordkurde
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kyʁd\
Letters5
Frequency rank#15,665
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of kurde in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for kurde is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kyʁd\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,665 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Langue parlée au Kurdistan (Turquie, Iran, Iraq et Syrie). Elle fait partie de la famille des langues iraniennes (qui appartiennent au groupe indo-européen) et se compose de différents dialectes (v...".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for kurde, with forms such as "kkurde", "krude", and "kudre". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "kyrie", "kurdes", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is kurde, spelled K-U-R-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Langue parlée au Kurdistan (Turquie, Iran, Iraq et Syrie). Elle fait partie de la famille des langues iraniennes (qui appartiennent au groupe indo-européen) et se compose de différents dialectes (voir hyponymes ci-dessous).

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: kkurde,krude,kudre,kurdde,kured,kurrde,ukrde

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for kurde

Misspelling Variants of "kurde"

kkurde6krude5kudre5kurdde6kured5kurrde6ukrde5
Misspelling Variants of "kurde"

Frequency rank: #15,665 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "kurde"?
"kurde" is spelled K-U-R-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kyʁd\.
What does "kurde" mean?
As a noun, "kurde" means: Langue parlée au Kurdistan (Turquie, Iran, Iraq et Syrie). Elle fait partie de la famille des langues iraniennes (qui appartiennent au groupe indo-européen) et se compose de différents dialectes (v...
What words are commonly confused with "kurde"?
"kurde" is commonly confused with "kyrie", "kurdes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "kurde"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "kurde" is \kyʁd\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "kurde" come from?
"kurde" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.