Kenya
\kɛ.nja\
The verdict
“Kenya” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,852. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,852
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pays d’Afrique de l’Est, entouré par le Soudan du Sud et l’Éthiopie au nord, la Somalie et l’océan Indien à l’est, l’Ouganda à l’ouest et la Tanzanie au sud. Sa capitale est Nairobi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kenya · Kenya · French
Kenya · rank #7,852 · 7 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,852
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH Kate
Nearest frequency peer: Kate (-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 « Kenya »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- itinéraire
itinéraire
92,152 corpus weight
- jugée
jugée
92,151 corpus weight
- Kate
Kate
92,150 corpus weight
- Kenya
Kenya
92,149 corpus weight
- laboratoires
laboratoires
92,148 corpus weight
- lente
lente
92,147 corpus weight
What this shows « Kenya » 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 | Kenya |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kɛ.nja\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #7,852 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Kenya »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Kenya (IPA \kɛ.nja\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #7,852 among 737 “K” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pays d’Afrique de l’Est, entouré par le Soudan du Sud et l’Éthiopie au nord, la Somalie et l’océan Indien à l’est, l’Ouganda à l’ouest et la Tanzanie au sud. Sa capitale est Nairobi.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Kenya, with forms such as "eknya", "kenay", and "kennya". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "key", "keys", "Kenzo", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 Kenya, spelled K-E-N-Y-A.
Definition
- 1Pays d’Afrique de l’Est, entouré par le Soudan du Sud et l’Éthiopie au nord, la Somalie et l’océan Indien à l’est, l’Ouganda à l’ouest et la Tanzanie au sud. Sa capitale est Nairobi.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Kenya appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et, avant de regagner l’Europe, j’avais résolu de passer par un des Parcs royaux du Kenya, ces réserves où des lois d’une rigueur extrême protègent les bêtes sauvages dans toutes les formes de leur vie.
Le bongo se rencontre en zone forestière de l’Ouest africain jusqu’au Kenya et en Ouganda ; il n’en est pas moins la plus rare des grandes antilopes et sa protection est une nécessité impérieuse.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eknya
- kenay
- kennya
- kenyya
- keyna
- kkenya
- kneya
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Kenya - 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
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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 (7 here; floor ≥5).