kaki
\ka.ki\
The verdict
“kaki” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,574. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,574
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plaqueminier (Diospyros kaki Thunb.).
Corpus desk
Index FR-kaki · kaki · French
kaki · rank #31,574 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,574
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH justifiés
Nearest frequency peer: justifiés (-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 « kaki »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- July
July
68,430 corpus weight
- jurassique
jurassique
68,429 corpus weight
- justifiés
justifiés
68,428 corpus weight
- kaki
kaki
68,427 corpus weight
- Khalil
Khalil
68,426 corpus weight
- Lapierre
Lapierre
68,425 corpus weight
What this shows « kaki » 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 | kaki |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ki\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #31,574 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « kaki »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around kaki (IPA \ka.ki\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,574 among 737 “K” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for kaki, with forms such as "akki", "kaik", and "kakki". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ki", "kay", "kan", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is kaki, spelled K-A-K-I.
Definition
- 1Plaqueminier (Diospyros kaki Thunb.).
- 2Fruit du plaqueminier, baie ressemblant à une tomate d’une belle teinte orangée, presque rouge, à la peau translucide à maturité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how kaki appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[Le] SI ou KAKI […] est un arbre du Japon, nommé figuier des jardins ; il a les feuilles du poirier, & son fruit est d’un goût très agréable.
Le kaki, dont le feuillage ressemble à celui du néflier.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- akki
- kaik
- kakki
- kkai
- kkaki
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of kaki - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).