KGB
\ka.ʒe.be\
The verdict
“KGB” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #26,076) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #26,076
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Principal service de renseignement de l’Union soviétique post-stalinienne, entre 1954 et 1991.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kgb · KGB · French
KGB · rank #26,076 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,076
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH keys
Nearest frequency peer: keys (-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 « KGB »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- kabila
kabila
73,928 corpus weight
- Kathy
Kathy
73,927 corpus weight
- keys
keys
73,926 corpus weight
- KGB
KGB
73,925 corpus weight
- laitier
laitier
73,924 corpus weight
- lean
lean
73,923 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « KGB » 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 | KGB |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʒe.be\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #26,076 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « KGB »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for KGB is neighbouring look-alikes ("km", "ki", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \ka.ʒe.be\. Frequency #26,076 among 737 “K” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for KGB in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "km", "ki", "ko", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is KGB, spelled K-G-B.
Definition
- 1Principal service de renseignement de l’Union soviétique post-stalinienne, entre 1954 et 1991.
- 2Principal service de renseignement de la Biélorussie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how KGB appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En novembre 1982, la disparition de Brejnev permet à Andropov, qui régnait sans partage sur le KGB depuis 1967, de s’emparer du pouvoir absolu. À l’annonce de sa nomination, la grande majorité des Soviétiques en reste stupéfaite.
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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