kyrielle
\ki.ʁjɛl\
The verdict
“kyrielle” is uncommon French (frequency #68,403 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,403
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Suite interminable de paroles ou de mots.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kyrielle · kyrielle · French
kyrielle · rank #68,403 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,403
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kuma
Nearest frequency peer: kuma (-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 « kyrielle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Khaleesi
Khaleesi
31,602 corpus weight
- kilowatts
kilowatts
31,601 corpus weight
- Kirchberg
Kirchberg
31,600 corpus weight
- kuma
kuma
31,599 corpus weight
- kyrielle
kyrielle
31,598 corpus weight
- lager
lager
31,596 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « kyrielle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kyrielle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ki.ʁjɛl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,403 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « kyrielle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
kyrielle is uncommon French at frequency #68,403 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ki.ʁjɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for kyrielle, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is kyrielle, spelled K-Y-R-I-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Suite interminable de paroles ou de mots.
- 2Toute longue série, multitude.
- 3Procédé stylistique utilisé en versification et qui consiste à reprendre le même mot ou groupe de mots à la fin de chaque strophe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how kyrielle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il lui a adressé une kyrielle d’insultes.
Une longue kyrielle de noms inconnus et barbares.
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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