kalo
"kalo" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“kalo” is uncommon English (frequency #88,492 among 1,236 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,492
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - taro (Colocasia esculenta)
Corpus desk
Index EN-kalo · kalo · English
kalo · rank #88,492 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,492
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH kampong
Nearest frequency peer: kampong (+3 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 “kalo”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Jair
Jair
11,521 corpus weight
- Jairus
Jairus
11,520 corpus weight
- jihadism
jihadism
11,516 corpus weight
- kalo
kalo
11,509 corpus weight
- kampong
kampong
11,506 corpus weight
- Kashima
Kashima
11,504 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “kalo” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kalo |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #88,492 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “kalo” in English
Rare enough to double-check
kalo is uncommon English at frequency #88,492 among 1,236 “K” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "taro (Colocasia esculenta)".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for kalo, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Hawaiian kalo. Doublet of taro, from Maori. The correct English form is kalo, spelled K-A-L-O.
Definition
- 1taro (Colocasia esculenta)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how kalo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Three hundred varieties of kalo are named in the Hawaiian language, 85 of which are still known today. In addition to being the source of the staple Hawaiian food poi, kalo was also used for fishing bait and as a dye.
Etymology
Borrowed from Hawaiian kalo. Doublet of taro, from Maori.
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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