Kira
/kiːrə/
"kira" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Kira” has 5 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #22,133. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,133
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A female given name from Persian or Irish.
Corpus desk
Index EN-kira · Kira · English
Kira · rank #22,133 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,133
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH kink
Nearest frequency peer: kink (-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 “Kira”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- kali
kali
77,871 corpus weight
- kilometre
kilometre
77,870 corpus weight
- kink
kink
77,869 corpus weight
- Kira
Kira
77,868 corpus weight
- lagging
lagging
77,867 corpus weight
- Laguna
Laguna
77,866 corpus weight
What this shows “Kira” 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 | Kira |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /kiːrə/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #22,133 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Kira”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Kira (IPA /kiːrə/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #22,133 among 1,236 “K” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A female given name from Persian or Irish.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Kira, with forms such as "ikra", "kiar", and "kirra". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "kit", "KKR", "kor", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: Variant of Kyra or borrowed from Russian Ки́ра (Kíra), ultimately from Persian کوروش (Kūrūš). Also used as a respelling of Ciara, from Irish [Term?]. The correct English form is Kira, spelled K-I-R-A.
Definition
- 1A female given name from Persian or Irish.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Kira appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The ordeal is a world away from Kira now as she plays games on her new iPad while absently talking about downloading more apps to play music, and voicing her excitement over reuniting soon with her grandfather’s girlfriend.
Etymology
Variant of Kyra or borrowed from Russian Ки́ра (Kíra), ultimately from Persian کوروش (Kūrūš). Also used as a respelling of Ciara, from Irish [Term?].
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ikra
- kiar
- kirra
- kkira
- kria
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Kira - 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 "Kira", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).