kilomètre
\ki.lɔ.mɛtʁ\
The verdict
“kilomètre” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,186. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,186
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unité de mesure de longueur du Système international (SI), valant 10³ mètres, et dont le symbole est km.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kilometre · kilomètre · French
kilomètre · rank #9,186 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,186
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH justesse
Nearest frequency peer: justesse (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « kilomètre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- jouet
jouet
90,818 corpus weight
- joyeuse
joyeuse
90,817 corpus weight
- justesse
justesse
90,816 corpus weight
- kilomètre
kilomètre
90,815 corpus weight
- laissera
laissera
90,814 corpus weight
- lisse
lisse
90,813 corpus weight
What this shows « kilomètre » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | kilomètre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ki.lɔ.mɛtʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #9,186 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « kilomètre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around kilomètre (IPA \ki.lɔ.mɛtʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,186 among 737 “K” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for kilomètre, with forms such as "iklomètre", "killomètre", and "kilmoètre". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "kilomètres", "kilométrage", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is kilomètre, spelled K-I-L-O-M-È-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Unité de mesure de longueur du Système international (SI), valant 10³ mètres, et dont le symbole est km.
- 2Grande distance.
- 3Contre-la-montre d’un kilomètre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how kilomètre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les appareils s’élevaient assez bien et volaient pendant quelques kilomètres, mais ils reprenaient rarement terre sans qu’une partie quelconque se disloquât.
L’opération de pourrissage qu’on appelle également « schappage », offre le gros inconvénient de dégager une forte odeur, désagréable et tellement accentuée qu’elle se distingue à plus d’un kilomètre des usines.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iklomètre
- killomètre
- kilmoètre
- kilometre
- kilommètre
- kilomtère
- kilomèrte
- kilomèter
- kilomètrre
- kilomèttre
- kiloèmtre
- kiolmètre
- kkilomètre
- kliomètre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of kilomètre - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).