NKVD
\ɛn.ka.ve.de\
The verdict
“NKVD” is uncommon French (frequency #91,980 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,980
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Organisme d'État soviétique équivalent à un ministère de l’intérieur et une police politique, ayant existé de 1934 à 1946.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nkvd · NKVD · French
NKVD · rank #91,980 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,980
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nobili
Nearest frequency peer: nobili (+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 « NKVD »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nichées
nichées
8,025 corpus weight
- Nikolaus
Nikolaus
8,024 corpus weight
- nippones
nippones
8,023 corpus weight
- NKVD
NKVD
8,021 corpus weight
- nobili
nobili
8,020 corpus weight
- numismate
numismate
8,017 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « NKVD » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | NKVD |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɛn.ka.ve.de\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #91,980 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « NKVD » en français
Rare enough to double-check
NKVD is uncommon French at frequency #91,980 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɛn.ka.ve.de\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Organisme d'État soviétique équivalent à un ministère de l’intérieur et une police politique, ayant existé de 1934 à 1946.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for NKVD in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is NKVD, spelled N-K-V-D.
Definition
- 1Organisme d'État soviétique équivalent à un ministère de l’intérieur et une police politique, ayant existé de 1934 à 1946.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how NKVD appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mort fusillé sans procès sur ordre de Lavrenti Beria, le chef du NKVD et donc de Komarov, il ne fut rétabli dans son honneur que quatorze ans plus tard…
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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