kilogramme

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The French entry for kilogramme is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ki.lo.ɡʁam\. Corpus data places it at rank #40,343 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Unité de masse dans le Système international d’unités (SI) qui a pour symbole kg. À l’origine le kilogramme représentait la masse d’un litre d’eau au maximum de sa densité, mais il a été défini com...".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for kilogramme, with forms such as "iklogramme", "kilgoramme", and "killogramme". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "kilogrammes", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is kilogramme, spelled K-I-L-O-G-R-A-M-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.