Qaraqosh
\ka.ʁa.kɔʃ\
The verdict
“Qaraqosh” is uncommon French (frequency #97,326 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,326
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville du nord de l’Irak, dans le district d’Al-Hamdaniya de la province de Ninive.
Corpus desk
Index FR-qaraqosh · Qaraqosh · French
Qaraqosh · rank #97,326 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,326
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH quadro
Nearest frequency peer: quadro (+2 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 « Qaraqosh »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- puro
puro
2,679 corpus weight
- puéricultri…
puéricultrice
2,678 corpus weight
- Qaraqosh
Qaraqosh
2,675 corpus weight
- quadro
quadro
2,673 corpus weight
- Queenstown
Queenstown
2,672 corpus weight
- queers
queers
2,671 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Qaraqosh » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Qaraqosh |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁa.kɔʃ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #97,326 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Qaraqosh » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Qaraqosh is uncommon French at frequency #97,326 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ka.ʁa.kɔʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville du nord de l’Irak, dans le district d’Al-Hamdaniya de la province de Ninive.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Qaraqosh, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Qaraqosh, spelled Q-A-R-A-Q-O-S-H.
Definition
- 1Ville du nord de l’Irak, dans le district d’Al-Hamdaniya de la province de Ninive.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Qaraqosh appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des djihadistes se sont emparés de Qaraqosh, la plus grande ville chrétienne d’Irak près de Mossoul (nord), ont rapporté ce jeudi des habitants en fuite et un responsable religieux.
Les chrétiens de la ville de Qaraqosh, principale ville chrétienne d’Irak située au sud-est de Mossoul, ont notamment fui avant l’arrivée des djihadistes.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).