kao
The verdict
“kao” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #47,406) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #47,406
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Champs
Corpus desk
Index FR-kao · kao · French
kao · rank #47,406 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,406
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kato
Nearest frequency peer: kato (+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 « kao »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Ivo
Ivo
52,599 corpus weight
- jugulaire
jugulaire
52,598 corpus weight
- jurant
jurant
52,597 corpus weight
- kao
kao
52,595 corpus weight
- kato
kato
52,594 corpus weight
- Kirchner
Kirchner
52,592 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « kao » 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 | kao |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #47,406 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « kao »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for kao is neighbouring look-alikes ("km", "kg", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #47,406 among 737 “K” headwords. Gloss: "Champs".
No generated misspelling entries exist for kao 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, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is kao, spelled K-A-O.
Definition
- 1Champs
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how kao appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aka pɛ a nan pɛ ɔ kao bo
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).