kha
"kha" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“kha” is uncommon English (frequency #53,646 among 9,255 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,646
- frequency rank, English
- 9,255
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The name of the Cyrillic script letter Х / х.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kha |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #53,646 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “kha” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
kha is uncommon English at frequency #53,646 among 9,255 “K” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The name of the Cyrillic script letter Х / х.".
kha doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Russian ха (xa). The correct English form is kha, spelled K-H-A.
Definition
- 1The name of the Cyrillic script letter Х / х.
Etymology
From Russian ха (xa).
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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Using “kha”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is K-H-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.