kat
"kat" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“kat” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #12,262) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #12,262
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An ancient Egyptian unit of weight, one fiftieth of an avoirdupois pound.
Corpus desk
Index EN-kat · kat · English
kat · rank #12,262 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,262
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH Kerr
Nearest frequency peer: Kerr (+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 neighbours of confusable “kat”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- incidence
incidence
87,743 corpus weight
- intimacy
intimacy
87,742 corpus weight
- kat
kat
87,739 corpus weight
- Kerr
Kerr
87,738 corpus weight
- kitten
kitten
87,737 corpus weight
- Knicks
Knicks
87,736 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “kat” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
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 | kat |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #12,262 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “kat”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for kat is neighbouring look-alikes ("kI", "ky", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #12,262 among 1,236 “K” headwords. Gloss: "An ancient Egyptian unit of weight, one fiftieth of an avoirdupois pound.".
Zero misspellings are on record for kat in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "kI", "ky", "ko", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Egyptian kꜣt. The correct English form is kat, spelled K-A-T.
Definition
- 1An ancient Egyptian unit of weight, one fiftieth of an avoirdupois pound.
Etymology
From Egyptian kꜣt.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).