kaos
\kɑ.os\
The verdict
“kaos” is uncommon French (frequency #89,848 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,848
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chaos.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kaos · kaos · French
kaos · rank #89,848 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,848
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kantienne
Nearest frequency peer: kantienne (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « kaos »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- jouissive
jouissive
10,157 corpus weight
- Junge
Junge
10,155 corpus weight
- kantienne
kantienne
10,154 corpus weight
- kaos
kaos
10,153 corpus weight
- kham
kham
10,151 corpus weight
- klezmer
klezmer
10,150 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « kaos » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kaos |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɑ.os\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #89,848 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « kaos » en français
Rare enough to double-check
kaos is uncommon French at frequency #89,848 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɑ.os\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Chaos.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for kaos, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is kaos, spelled K-A-O-S.
Definition
- 1Chaos.
Synonyms
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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