kid
\kid\
The verdict
“kid” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #12,183) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #12,183
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gosse, jeune, enfant, gamin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kid · kid · French
kid · rank #12,183 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,183
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kent
Nearest frequency peer: kent (-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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “kid”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- interrogato…
interrogatoire
87,821 corpus weight
- iso
iso
87,820 corpus weight
- kent
kent
87,819 corpus weight
- kid
kid
87,818 corpus weight
- latitude
latitude
87,816 corpus weight
- law
law
87,815 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “kid” against nearest ranked French headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
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 | kid |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kid\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #12,183 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “kid” se place dans la fréquence du français
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for kid is neighbouring look-alikes ("km", "ko", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \kid\. Frequency #12,183 among 737 “K” headwords. Gloss: "Gosse, jeune, enfant, gamin.".
kid has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "km", "ko", "kW", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 kid, spelled K-I-D.
Definition
- 1Gosse, jeune, enfant, gamin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how kid appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
N’oubliez pas de prendre des jeux pour distraire les kids.
Christophe Tiozzo, star de la boxe française, de ses débuts pros en 1985 à son échec pour le titre des mi-lourds WBC en juin 1992, est de retour. Officiellement ce soir à Bron, face à l’Américain Steven Brewer, un kid de Cincinnati (13 victoires, 1 nul et 6 défaites), pour son 33ᵉ combat (2 défaites), le premier depuis quarante mois.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).