xhosa
\kso.sa\
The verdict
“xhosa” is uncommon French (frequency #78,062 among 62 “X” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,062
- frequency rank, French
- 62
- “X” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue bantoue parlée en Afrique du Sud.
Corpus desk
Index FR-xhosa · xhosa · French
xhosa · rank #78,062 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,062
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 62
- PHOTO-FINISH yana
Nearest frequency peer: yana (+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 « xhosa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Wissam
Wissam
21,943 corpus weight
- Wotan
Wotan
21,942 corpus weight
- wraith
wraith
21,941 corpus weight
- xhosa
xhosa
21,939 corpus weight
- yana
yana
21,938 corpus weight
- yat
yat
21,937 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « xhosa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | xhosa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kso.sa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #78,062 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « xhosa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
xhosa is uncommon French at frequency #78,062 among 62 “X” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kso.sa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Langue bantoue parlée en Afrique du Sud.".
Zero misspellings are on record for xhosa in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is xhosa, spelled X-H-O-S-A.
Definition
- 1Langue bantoue parlée en Afrique du Sud.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how xhosa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le véritable prénom de Nelson Mandela est “Rolihlahla”, ce qui signifie en langue xhosa “fauteur de troubles”.
L’introduction du xhosa dans une superproduction hollywoodienne est une première.
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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