kia
\ˈki.a\
The verdict
“kia” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #26,775) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #26,775
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quel genre de, quelle sorte de, quel, comment.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kia · kia · French
kia · rank #26,775 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,775
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH Juda
Nearest frequency peer: Juda (-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 « kia »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Jocelyn
Jocelyn
73,229 corpus weight
- Johannes
Johannes
73,228 corpus weight
- Juda
Juda
73,227 corpus weight
- kia
kia
73,226 corpus weight
- Koch
Koch
73,224 corpus weight
- labos
labos
73,223 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « kia » 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 | kia |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈki.a\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #26,775 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « kia »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for kia is neighbouring look-alikes ("km", "ko", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \ˈki.a\. Frequency #26,775 among 737 “K” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for kia, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "km", "ko", "kW", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is kia, spelled K-I-A.
Definition
- 1Quel genre de, quelle sorte de, quel, comment.
- 2A également un sens relatif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how kia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Kian muzikon vi ŝatas?
Kia estas la vetero?
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 "kia", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).