4K
\katʁ.ka\
The verdict
“4K” sits in 6 confusable pairs (corpus #14,399) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,399
- frequency rank, French
- 10
- “4” headwords
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter)…
Corpus desk
Index FR-4k · 4K · French
4K · rank #14,399 · 0 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,399
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 10
- PHOTO-FINISH 3G
Nearest frequency peer: 3G (-1 rank slots)
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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « 4K »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- évaluations
évaluations
85,605 corpus weight
- évalue
évalue
85,604 corpus weight
- 3G
3G
85,603 corpus weight
- 4K
4K
85,602 corpus weight
- abdomen
abdomen
85,601 corpus weight
- abordable
abordable
85,600 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « 4K » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | 4K |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \katʁ.ka\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #14,399 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « 4K »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for 4K is neighbouring look-alikes ("4L", "4x4", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \katʁ.ka\. Frequency #14,399 among 10 “4” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No misspelling variants are generated for 4K in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "4L", "4x4", "4", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is 4K, spelled 4-K.
Definition
- 1Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter)…
- 2Type de qualité d’images UHD qui correspond généralement en réalité à une image d’une largeur de 3,840 px.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how 4K appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le DCDM utilise une structure d’image hiérarchique qui supporte aussi bien des fichiers de résolution 2K (2048 x 1080; 24 ou 48 images/seconde) que des fichiers de résolution 4K (4096 x 2160 ; 24 images/seconde) afin de pouvoir être utilisés par des types de projecteurs 2 ou 4K.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.