kilos
/ˈkiːləʊz/
"kilos" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“kilos” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #20,980. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,980
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of kilo
Corpus desk
Index EN-kilos · kilos · English
kilos · rank #20,980 · 7 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,980
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH Kev
Nearest frequency peer: Kev (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “kilos”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Keane
Keane
79,024 corpus weight
- Kev
Kev
79,022 corpus weight
- kilos
kilos
79,021 corpus weight
- Kurdistan
Kurdistan
79,020 corpus weight
- lament
lament
79,019 corpus weight
- leach
leach
79,018 corpus weight
What this shows “kilos” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | kilos |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkiːləʊz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #20,980 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “kilos”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around kilos (IPA /ˈkiːləʊz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,980 among 1,236 “K” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of kilo".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for kilos, with forms such as "iklos", "killos", and "kiloss". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "Kos", "kiss", "kits", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is kilos, spelled K-I-L-O-S.
Definition
- 1plural of kilo
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iklos
- killos
- kiloss
- kilso
- kiols
- kkilos
- klios
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of kilos - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "kilos", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).