Kop
/kɒp/
"kop" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Kop” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #48,852) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #48,852
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A terrace at a football ground, originally for standing spectators, though all-seater stadia have been mandatory for larger UK clubs since 1994.
Corpus desk
Index EN-kop · Kop · English
Kop · rank #48,852 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,852
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH kno
Nearest frequency peer: kno (-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 neighbours of confusable “Kop”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- Khun
Khun
51,152 corpus weight
- knead
knead
51,151 corpus weight
- kno
kno
51,150 corpus weight
- Kop
Kop
51,149 corpus weight
- Laney
Laney
51,147 corpus weight
- Lanza
Lanza
51,146 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “Kop” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
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 | Kop |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɒp/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #48,852 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “Kop”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Kop is neighbouring look-alikes ("ky", "Ku", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /kɒp/. Frequency #48,852 among 1,236 “K” headwords. Gloss: "A terrace at a football ground, originally for standing spectators, though all-seater stadia have been mandatory for larger UK clubs since 1994.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Kop in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ky", "Ku", "KS", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Spion Kop, from Afrikaans kop (“hill”). The correct English form is Kop, spelled K-O-P.
Definition
- 1A terrace at a football ground, originally for standing spectators, though all-seater stadia have been mandatory for larger UK clubs since 1994.
Etymology
From Spion Kop, from Afrikaans kop (“hill”).
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).