kohls
/kəʊlz/
"kohls" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“kohls” is uncommon English (frequency #70,814 among 1,236 “K” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,814
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - third-person singular simple present indicative of kohl
Corpus desk
Index EN-kohls · kohls · English
kohls · rank #70,814 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,814
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH Klang
Nearest frequency peer: Klang (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “kohls”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Kishan
Kishan
29,191 corpus weight
- Kitson
Kitson
29,189 corpus weight
- Klang
Klang
29,188 corpus weight
- kohls
kohls
29,187 corpus weight
- Kubernetes
Kubernetes
29,185 corpus weight
- kula
kula
29,184 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “kohls” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kohls |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /kəʊlz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #70,814 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “kohls” in English
Rare enough to double-check
kohls is uncommon English at frequency #70,814 among 1,236 “K” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /kəʊlz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "third-person singular simple present indicative of kohl".
No misspelling variants are generated for kohls in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is kohls, spelled K-O-H-L-S.
Definition
- 1third-person singular simple present indicative of kohl
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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