kan
\kɑ̃\
The verdict
“kan” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #21,371) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #21,371
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prince commandant chez les Mongols (autrefois appelés Tartares), les chefs d’État de Perse d’origine mongole, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kan · kan · French
kan · rank #21,371 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,371
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH khalifa
Nearest frequency peer: khalifa (+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 « kan »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Jacky
Jacky
78,634 corpus weight
- joliment
joliment
78,632 corpus weight
- kan
kan
78,630 corpus weight
- khalifa
khalifa
78,629 corpus weight
- kitty
kitty
78,628 corpus weight
- Laos
Laos
78,627 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « kan » 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 | kan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #21,371 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « kan »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for kan is neighbouring look-alikes ("km", "kg", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \kɑ̃\. Frequency #21,371 among 737 “K” headwords. Gloss: "Prince commandant chez les Mongols (autrefois appelés Tartares), les chefs d’État de Perse d’origine mongole, etc.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for kan 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, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is kan, spelled K-A-N.
Definition
- 1Prince commandant chez les Mongols (autrefois appelés Tartares), les chefs d’État de Perse d’origine mongole, etc.
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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