kana
\ka.na\
The verdict
“kana” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,533. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,533
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère japonais qui note une more (et non pas forcément une syllabe).
Corpus desk
Index FR-kana · kana · French
kana · rank #44,533 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,533
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH judd
Nearest frequency peer: judd (-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 « kana »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- journaleux
journaleux
55,471 corpus weight
- JPEG
JPEG
55,470 corpus weight
- judd
judd
55,469 corpus weight
- kana
kana
55,468 corpus weight
- Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe
55,467 corpus weight
- Kidal
Kidal
55,465 corpus weight
What this shows « kana » 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 | kana |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.na\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #44,533 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « kana »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around kana (IPA \ka.na\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,533 among 737 “K” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Caractère japonais qui note une more (et non pas forcément une syllabe).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for kana, with forms such as "akna", "kaan", and "kanna". 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, "ken", "kay", "kat", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is kana, spelled K-A-N-A.
Definition
- 1Caractère japonais qui note une more (et non pas forcément une syllabe).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how kana appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
S’il y avait des caractères dont on ne comprenait pas le sens, il suffisait d'en indiquer la lecture en ajoutant des kana sur le côté, ce n’était pas grave. Sur le texte, les furigana étaient écrits en tout petit au stylo à bille bleu. Cette couleur bleue débordait de la conviction qu’aucun caractère n’était à négliger.
Fameux pour son écriture en kana (l’alphabet phonétique japonais), Yukinari créa un style raffiné et élégant que l’on peut admirer de nos jours sur des rouleaux conservés au Musée national de Tokyo.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- akna
- kaan
- kanna
- kkana
- knaa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of kana - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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).