kat
\kat\
The verdict
“kat” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #23,919) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #23,919
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de qat.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kat · kat · French
kat · rank #23,919 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,919
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kader
Nearest frequency peer: kader (-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 « kat »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- joua
joua
76,085 corpus weight
- Joëlle
Joëlle
76,084 corpus weight
- kader
kader
76,083 corpus weight
- kat
kat
76,082 corpus weight
- kris
kris
76,081 corpus weight
- lassitude
lassitude
76,080 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « kat » 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 | kat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kat\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #23,919 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « kat »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for kat is neighbouring look-alikes ("km", "kg", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \kat\. Frequency #23,919 among 737 “K” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
kat has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "km", "kg", "ki", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is kat, spelled K-A-T.
Definition
- 1Variante de qat.
- 2Le corps physique, une des parties de l’âme humaine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how kat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tout en mâchonnant le kat plusieurs heures durant, un chauffeur de taxi m’a conduit, avec une remarquable adresse, par des sentiers périlleux, susceptibles de décourager plus d’un Européen.
On l’envoyait puiser de l’eau pour les femmes, il recevait en aumône un coup de bâton, parfois un peu de tabac ou du kat qui est une drogue amère.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).