kill
\kɪl\
The verdict
“kill” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #16,403) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #16,403
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de killen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kill · kill · French
kill · rank #16,403 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,403
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH Keller
Nearest frequency peer: Keller (-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 « kill »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- itinéraires
itinéraires
83,601 corpus weight
- Jedi
Jedi
83,600 corpus weight
- Keller
Keller
83,599 corpus weight
- kill
kill
83,598 corpus weight
- leone
leone
83,596 corpus weight
- longévité
longévité
83,595 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « kill » 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 | kill |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɪl\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #16,403 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « kill »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for kill is neighbouring look-alikes ("kim", "kit", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \kɪl\. Frequency #16,403 among 737 “K” headwords. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de killen.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for kill, with forms such as "ikll", "kkill", and "klil". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "kim", "kit", "kin", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is kill, spelled K-I-L-L.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de killen.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ikll
- kkill
- klil
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of kill - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).