ka
\kɑ\
The verdict
“ka” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,298) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,298
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Autre appellation du kaon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ka · ka · French
ka · rank #14,298 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,298
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH jugées
Nearest frequency peer: jugées (-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 « ka »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Jorge
Jorge
85,706 corpus weight
- jouais
jouais
85,705 corpus weight
- jugées
jugées
85,704 corpus weight
- ka
ka
85,703 corpus weight
- kids
kids
85,702 corpus weight
- kings
kings
85,701 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ka » 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 | ka |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɑ\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #14,298 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ka »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ka is neighbouring look-alikes ("km", "kg", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \kɑ\. Frequency #14,298 among 737 “K” headwords. Gloss: "Autre appellation du kaon.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ka, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is ka, spelled K-A.
Definition
- 1Autre appellation du kaon.
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.