khi
"khi" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“khi” is uncommon English (frequency #98,321 among 9,255 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,321
- frequency rank, English
- 9,255
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Alternative spelling of chi (uppercase Χ, lowercase χ), the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
Corpus desk
Index EN-khi · khi · English
khi · rank #98,321 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,321
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 9,255
- PHOTO-FINISH Khin
Nearest frequency peer: Khin (+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 neighbourhood for “khi”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Keter
Keter
1,685 corpus weight
- Ketu
Ketu
1,684 corpus weight
- Khabarovsk
Khabarovsk
1,682 corpus weight
- khi
khi
1,680 corpus weight
- Khin
Khin
1,679 corpus weight
- Kingsmill
Kingsmill
1,675 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “khi” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | khi |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #98,321 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “khi” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
khi is uncommon English at frequency #98,321 among 9,255 “K” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative spelling of chi (uppercase Χ, lowercase χ), the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for khi, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is khi, spelled K-H-I.
Definition
- 1Alternative spelling of chi (uppercase Χ, lowercase χ), the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.