ki
\ki\
The verdict
“ki” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,569) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,569
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de qui.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ki · ki · French
ki · rank #8,569 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,569
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH jumeaux
Nearest frequency peer: jumeaux (-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 « ki »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- interruption
interruption
91,435 corpus weight
- islamiste
islamiste
91,434 corpus weight
- jumeaux
jumeaux
91,433 corpus weight
- ki
ki
91,432 corpus weight
- landes
landes
91,431 corpus weight
- Languedoc
Languedoc
91,430 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ki » 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 | ki |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | \ki\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #8,569 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ki »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ki is neighbouring look-alikes ("km", "ko", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced \ki\. Frequency #8,569 among 737 “K” headwords. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de qui.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ki, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "km", "ko", "kW", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is ki, spelled K-I.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de qui.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ki appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
T’es ki toi ?
Tu parles de ki?
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.