kayak
\ka.jak\
The verdict
“kayak” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,420. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,420
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite embarcation qui peut être monoplace, biplace, triplace ou quadriplace.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kayak · kayak · French
kayak · rank #15,420 · 7 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,420
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH Jérémie
Nearest frequency peer: Jérémie (-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 « kayak »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- intensive
intensive
84,584 corpus weight
- jouissance
jouissance
84,583 corpus weight
- Jérémie
Jérémie
84,582 corpus weight
- kayak
kayak
84,581 corpus weight
- lana
lana
84,580 corpus weight
- lanceurs
lanceurs
84,579 corpus weight
What this shows « kayak » 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 | kayak |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.jak\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #15,420 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « kayak »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around kayak (IPA \ka.jak\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,420 among 737 “K” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for kayak, with forms such as "akyak", "kaayk", and "kayakk". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "Kazan", "kodak", "kazakh", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is kayak, spelled K-A-Y-A-K.
Definition
- 1Petite embarcation qui peut être monoplace, biplace, triplace ou quadriplace.
- 2Sport nautique qui se pratique à l’aide d’une pagaie double (à deux pales).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how kayak appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le kayak est une longue pirogue, relevée des deux bouts, faite d’une charpente extrêmement légère, sur laquelle sont tendues des peaux de phoque, bien cousues avec des nerfs de veau marin. Le dessus du kayak est également recouvert de peaux dans toute sa longueur, sauf en son milieu, où une ouverture est ménagée. C’est là que l’Esquimau prend place. Il la…
La délégation française a amené dans ses valises Quilian Koch, Pleybennois de 23 ans, l’un des piliers de l’équipe de K4 (kayak à 4) français.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- akyak
- kaayk
- kayakk
- kayka
- kayyak
- kkayak
- kyaak
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of kayak - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "kayak", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (7 here; floor ≥5).