kalu
"kalu" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“kalu” is uncommon English (frequency #87,435 among 1,236 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,435
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - a dark-skinned person.
Corpus desk
Index EN-kalu · kalu · English
kalu · rank #87,435 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,435
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH Kalyani
Nearest frequency peer: Kalyani (+1 rank slots)
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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 “kalu”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- jitterbug
jitterbug
12,577 corpus weight
- jowl
jowl
12,575 corpus weight
- kaizen
kaizen
12,568 corpus weight
- kalu
kalu
12,566 corpus weight
- Kalyani
Kalyani
12,565 corpus weight
- kero
kero
12,555 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “kalu” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kalu |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #87,435 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “kalu” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
kalu is uncommon English at frequency #87,435 among 1,236 “K” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "a dark-skinned person.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for kalu in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Hindi कालू (kālū, “a dark-skinned person”) The correct English form is kalu, spelled K-A-L-U.
Definition
- 1a dark-skinned person.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how kalu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
When dark skin carries such a heavy burden of discrimination — one that is alive and kicking even today — calling a person kalu, regardless of how much affection it’s said with, cannot be harmless. - Rajvi Desai
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindi कालू (kālū, “a dark-skinned person”)
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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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.