kad
\ˈkɑːt\
The verdict
“kad” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #48,622) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #48,622
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Combat, bataille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kad · kad · French
kad · rank #48,622 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,622
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH jouxtant
Nearest frequency peer: jouxtant (-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 « kad »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- joindra
joindra
51,381 corpus weight
- jouxtant
jouxtant
51,380 corpus weight
- kad
kad
51,379 corpus weight
- Karina
Karina
51,378 corpus weight
- Kasper
Kasper
51,377 corpus weight
- kata
kata
51,376 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « kad » 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 | kad |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈkɑːt\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #48,622 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « kad »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for kad is neighbouring look-alikes ("km", "kg", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ˈkɑːt\. Frequency #48,622 among 737 “K” headwords. Gloss: "Combat, bataille.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for kad in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is kad, spelled K-A-D.
Definition
- 1Combat, bataille.
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.
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