Kafka
\kaf.ka\
The verdict
“Kafka” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,411. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,411
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Œuvre de Franz Kafka.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kafka · Kafka · French
Kafka · rank #29,411 · 7 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,411
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH joliette
Nearest frequency peer: joliette (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Kafka »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- jetable
jetable
70,594 corpus weight
- jockey
jockey
70,592 corpus weight
- joliette
joliette
70,591 corpus weight
- Kafka
Kafka
70,590 corpus weight
- kaiser
kaiser
70,589 corpus weight
- kappa
kappa
70,588 corpus weight
What this shows « Kafka » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | Kafka |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaf.ka\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #29,411 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Kafka »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Kafka (IPA \kaf.ka\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,411 among 737 “K” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Kafka, with forms such as "akfka", "kafak", and "kaffka". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "kara", "kaki", "kana", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Kafka, spelled K-A-F-K-A.
Definition
- 1Œuvre de Franz Kafka.
- 2Par extension des situations inextricables, absurdes, sans issue, décrites par Franz Kafka : situation désespérée, pénible, absurde, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Kafka appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Château est mon Kafka préféré, tu dois vraiment le lire !
Ramenée de son calvaire, elle ne cesse de me répéter : « Mon Dieu, c'est du Kafka, c'est du Kafka… »
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- akfka
- kafak
- kaffka
- kafkka
- kakfa
- kfaka
- kkafka
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Kafka - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).