Kos
"kos" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Kos” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #27,534) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #27,534
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An island of the Dodecanese, Greece.
Corpus desk
Index EN-kos · Kos · English
Kos · rank #27,534 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,534
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH koala
Nearest frequency peer: koala (-2 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 “Kos”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- kip
kip
72,471 corpus weight
- Kirkland
Kirkland
72,470 corpus weight
- koala
koala
72,469 corpus weight
- Kos
Kos
72,467 corpus weight
- lashing
lashing
72,465 corpus weight
- lees
lees
72,463 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “Kos” 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 | Kos |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #27,534 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “Kos”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Kos is neighbouring look-alikes ("ky", "Ku", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun. Frequency #27,534 among 1,236 “K” headwords. Gloss: "An island of the Dodecanese, Greece.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Kos, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ky", "Ku", "KS", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Ancient Greek Κῶς (Kôs) and modern Greek Κως (Kos). The correct English form is Kos, spelled K-O-S.
Definition
- 1An island of the Dodecanese, Greece.
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Κῶς (Kôs) and modern Greek Κως (Kos).
This word in other languages
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).