Kwiatkowski

name

The verdict

“Kwiatkowski” is uncommon French (frequency #84,949 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#84,949
frequency rank, French
737
“K” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-kwiatkowski · Kwiatkowski · French

Kwiatkowski · rank #84,949 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #84,949
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 737
  • PHOTO-FINISH kétamine

Nearest frequency peer: kétamine (+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 « Kwiatkowski »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Kwiatkowski » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Kwiatkowski
PropertyValue
HeadwordKwiatkowski
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters11
Frequency rank#84,949
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Kwiatkowski » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).Kwiatkowskitombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « kétamine » (#84,950), « Koursk » (#84,947), « kirghizes » (#84,944). Parmi 737 lemmes en « K », « Kwiatkowski » est au #84,949. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Kwiatkowski is uncommon French at frequency #84,949 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".

Zero misspellings are on record for Kwiatkowski in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Kwiatkowski, spelled K-W-I-A-T-K-O-W-S-K-I.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Kwiatkowski appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les neuf autres (Powless, Alaphilippe, Kwiatkowski, Mollema, Adam Yates, Valverde, Gallopin, Sanchez et Gilbert) avaient tous la Grande Boucle dans les jambes.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Kwiatkowski"?
"Kwiatkowski" is spelled K-W-I-A-T-K-O-W-S-K-I.
What does "Kwiatkowski" mean?
As a proper noun, "Kwiatkowski" means: Nom de famille.
What language does "Kwiatkowski" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Kwiatkowski", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list