kairos
/ˈkaɪɹɒs/
"kairos" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“kairos” is uncommon English (frequency #76,906 among 1,236 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,906
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A time when conditions are right for the accomplishment of a crucial action; the opportune and decisive moment.
Corpus desk
Index EN-kairos · kairos · English
kairos · rank #76,906 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,906
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH kahuna
Nearest frequency peer: kahuna (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “kairos”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- jingoistic
jingoistic
23,100 corpus weight
- kagome
kagome
23,097 corpus weight
- kahuna
kahuna
23,096 corpus weight
- kairos
kairos
23,095 corpus weight
- Kaushal
Kaushal
23,093 corpus weight
- Kazi
Kazi
23,091 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “kairos” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kairos |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkaɪɹɒs/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #76,906 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “kairos” in English
Rare enough to double-check
kairos is uncommon English at frequency #76,906 among 1,236 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈkaɪɹɒs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A time when conditions are right for the accomplishment of a crucial action; the opportune and decisive moment.".
No misspelling variants are generated for kairos in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Ancient Greek καιρός (kairós). The correct English form is kairos, spelled K-A-I-R-O-S.
Definition
- 1A time when conditions are right for the accomplishment of a crucial action; the opportune and decisive moment.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how kairos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The—so-called! friends—rational world. If only they, Mom&Dad&Buddy&Sis, dear-but-square ones, could but know the kairos, the supreme moment…
Kairos is not measurable. Kairos is ontological. In kairos we are, we are fully in isness, not negatively, as Sartre saw the isness of the oak tree, but fully, wholly, positively.
Etymology
From Ancient Greek καιρός (kairós).
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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