Kai
The verdict
“Kai” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #17,464) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #17,464
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kai · Kai · French
Kai · rank #17,464 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,464
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH islamiques
Nearest frequency peer: islamiques (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Kai”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- intoxication
intoxication
82,540 corpus weight
- ISF
ISF
82,539 corpus weight
- islamiques
islamiques
82,538 corpus weight
- Kai
Kai
82,537 corpus weight
- Kremlin
Kremlin
82,536 corpus weight
- Landry
Landry
82,535 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Kai” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | Kai |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #17,464 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “Kai” se place dans la fréquence du français
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Kai is neighbouring look-alikes ("km", "kg", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun. Frequency #17,464 among 737 “K” headwords. Gloss: "Prénom masculin.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Kai in our index, 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Kai, spelled K-A-I.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Kai appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Blues se seraient mis d’accord avec Arsenal pour le transfert de Kai Havertz (24 ans, sous contrat jusqu'en 2025), selon The Athletic.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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- "Kai" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "km". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #17,464 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.