kif
\kif\
The verdict
“kif” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,651) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #24,651
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mélange de sommités de fleurs femelles séchées de chanvre indien et de tabac gris finement haché en Algérie et au Maroc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kif · kif · French
kif · rank #24,651 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,651
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH karaoké
Nearest frequency peer: karaoké (-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 « kif »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- juteux
juteux
75,352 corpus weight
- karaoké
karaoké
75,351 corpus weight
- kif
kif
75,350 corpus weight
- Lapointe
Lapointe
75,349 corpus weight
- lasers
lasers
75,348 corpus weight
- latina
latina
75,347 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « kif » 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 | kif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kif\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #24,651 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « kif »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for kif is neighbouring look-alikes ("km", "ko", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \kif\. Frequency #24,651 among 737 “K” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for kif in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is kif, spelled K-I-F.
Definition
- 1Mélange de sommités de fleurs femelles séchées de chanvre indien et de tabac gris finement haché en Algérie et au Maroc.
- 2Sensation de plaisir, voire d’extase.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how kif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hama Srir, à demi couché près de moi, tira son matoui (petit sac en filali pour le kif) et sa petite pipe. […]. Nous commençâmes à fumer.
Appartenant à la grande confrérie des conteurs et chanteurs errants, ce troubadour marocain ne possède pour toute fortune qu’un âne famélique, un vieux haïk en lambeaux, une pipe et une blague à kif et un petit instrument primitif à deux cordes, un gimbri, attribut de son état.
Synonyms
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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