kain
/keɪn/
"kain" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“kain” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #45,462) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #45,462
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - poultry, etc., required by the lease to be paid in kind by a tenant to the landlord.
Corpus desk
Index EN-kain · kain · English
kain · rank #45,462 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,462
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH jubilant
Nearest frequency peer: jubilant (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “kain”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- jailhouse
jailhouse
54,545 corpus weight
- Jeannette
Jeannette
54,543 corpus weight
- jubilant
jubilant
54,540 corpus weight
- kain
kain
54,539 corpus weight
- karmic
karmic
54,535 corpus weight
- keener
keener
54,533 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “kain” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kain |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /keɪn/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #45,462 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “kain” sits in English frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for kain is neighbouring look-alikes ("kI", "kid", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /keɪn/. Frequency #45,462 among 1,236 “K” headwords. Gloss: "poultry, etc., required by the lease to be paid in kind by a tenant to the landlord.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for kain, with forms such as "kainn", "kani", and "kian". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "kI", "kid", "Kim", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Irish cáin. The correct English form is kain, spelled K-A-I-N.
Definition
- 1poultry, etc., required by the lease to be paid in kind by a tenant to the landlord.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how kain appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
hens[…] in most leases make a part of the rent, under the name of kain, and are generally kept for conveniency or profit.
Etymology
From Irish cáin.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- kainn
- kani
- kian
- kkain
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of kain - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
What to do next
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- "kain" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "kI". View pair
- 4 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #45,462 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more English words in the "K" letter cohort. K–Z browse
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.