khi
\ki\
The verdict
“khi” is uncommon French (frequency #98,145 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,145
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Χ, χ, vingt-deuxième lettre et seizième consonne de l’alphabet grec.
Corpus desk
Index FR-khi · khi · French
khi · rank #98,145 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,145
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH Ketty
Nearest frequency peer: Ketty (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « khi »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Katara
Katara
1,860 corpus weight
- kermesses
kermesses
1,858 corpus weight
- Ketty
Ketty
1,857 corpus weight
- khi
khi
1,856 corpus weight
- kickboxing
kickboxing
1,855 corpus weight
- kima
kima
1,854 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « khi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | khi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ki\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #98,145 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « khi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
khi is uncommon French at frequency #98,145 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ki\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for khi in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is khi, spelled K-H-I.
Definition
- 1Χ, χ, vingt-deuxième lettre et seizième consonne de l’alphabet grec.
- 2Ꭓ, ꭓ, lettre additionnelle de l’alphabet latin, empruntée à l’alphabet grec.
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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