Kurzweil
The verdict
“Kurzweil” is uncommon French (frequency #91,864 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,864
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kurzweil · Kurzweil · French
Kurzweil · rank #91,864 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,864
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH Kraemer
Nearest frequency peer: Kraemer (-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 « Kurzweil »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Kirkpatrick
Kirkpatrick
8,141 corpus weight
- kizomba
kizomba
8,140 corpus weight
- Kraemer
Kraemer
8,138 corpus weight
- Kurzweil
Kurzweil
8,137 corpus weight
- labbe
labbe
8,136 corpus weight
- Labonté
Labonté
8,135 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Kurzweil » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kurzweil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #91,864 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Kurzweil » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Kurzweil is uncommon French at frequency #91,864 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Kurzweil, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Kurzweil, spelled K-U-R-Z-W-E-I-L.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Kurzweil appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a quelques années, le futurologue et directeur de l’ingénierie chez Google Raymond Kurzweil affirmait par exemple que nos méninges seraient directement connectées à Internet d’ici 2030.
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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