K2
\ka.dø\
The verdict
“K2” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #46,842) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #46,842
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plus haut sommet de la chaîne du Karakoram et deuxième montagne de la Terre par l’altitude avec 8,611 mètres, entre le Pakistan et la Chine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-k2 · K2 · French
K2 · rank #46,842 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,842
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH Josie
Nearest frequency peer: Josie (-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 « K2 »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Joaquim
Joaquim
53,162 corpus weight
- Josie
Josie
53,160 corpus weight
- K2
K2
53,159 corpus weight
- kalash
kalash
53,158 corpus weight
- kama
kama
53,157 corpus weight
- Kandahar
Kandahar
53,156 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « K2 » 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 | K2 |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ka.dø\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #46,842 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « K2 »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for K2 is neighbouring look-alikes ("km", "kg", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \ka.dø\. Frequency #46,842 among 737 “K” headwords. Gloss: "Plus haut sommet de la chaîne du Karakoram et deuxième montagne de la Terre par l’altitude avec 8,611 mètres, entre le Pakistan et la Chine.".
K2 has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "km", "kg", "ki", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is K2, spelled K-2.
Definition
- 1Plus haut sommet de la chaîne du Karakoram et deuxième montagne de la Terre par l’altitude avec 8,611 mètres, entre le Pakistan et la Chine.
Synonyms
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.