kappa
\ka.pa\
The verdict
“kappa” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,413. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,413
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Κ, κ, ϰ dixième lettre et sixième consonne de l’alphabet grec.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kappa · kappa · French
kappa · rank #29,413 · 5 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,413
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kaiser
Nearest frequency peer: kaiser (-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 « kappa »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- joliette
joliette
70,591 corpus weight
- Kafka
Kafka
70,590 corpus weight
- kaiser
kaiser
70,589 corpus weight
- kappa
kappa
70,588 corpus weight
- Kristina
Kristina
70,586 corpus weight
- Langres
Langres
70,585 corpus weight
What this shows « kappa » 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 | kappa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.pa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #29,413 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « kappa »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around kappa (IPA \ka.pa\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,413 among 737 “K” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Κ, κ, ϰ dixième lettre et sixième consonne de l’alphabet grec.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for kappa, with forms such as "akppa", "kapa", and "kapap". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "kara", "kaya", "kata", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is kappa, spelled K-A-P-P-A.
Definition
- 1Κ, κ, ϰ dixième lettre et sixième consonne de l’alphabet grec.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- akppa
- kapa
- kapap
- kkappa
- kpapa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of kappa - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).