kil
\kil\
The verdict
“kil” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #21,983) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #21,983
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mesure de volume équivalente à environ deux litres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kil · kil · French
kil · rank #21,983 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,983
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH koh
Nearest frequency peer: koh (+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 « kil »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- jouissent
jouissent
78,022 corpus weight
- joyeuses
joyeuses
78,021 corpus weight
- Kaboul
Kaboul
78,020 corpus weight
- kil
kil
78,018 corpus weight
- koh
koh
78,017 corpus weight
- kung
kung
78,016 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « kil » 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 | kil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kil\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #21,983 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « kil »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for kil is neighbouring look-alikes ("km", "ko", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \kil\. Frequency #21,983 among 737 “K” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for kil, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is kil, spelled K-I-L.
Definition
- 1Mesure de volume équivalente à environ deux litres.
- 2Kilo ; kilogramme.
- 3Litre de vin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how kil appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le lait frais vaut généralement 1 franc le kil de 2 litres, tandis que le vin, de qualité très ordinaire, se vend de 1 fr. 25 à 1 fr. 50 le litre.
il suffit pas de vendre des kils
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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