kilooctet

/\ki.lo.ɔk.tɛ\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

kilooctet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Unité de mesure du système international décrivant la quantité d’information numérique, valant 1,000 (10³) octets, et dont le symbole est ko ou Ko. Note d’usage : Dans le domaine logiciel, il est e... Pronounced \ki.lo.ɔk.tɛ\.

Key facts for kilooctet
PropertyValue
Headwordkilooctet
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ki.lo.ɔk.tɛ\
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

kilooctet is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for kilooctet is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ki.lo.ɔk.tɛ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Unité de mesure du système international décrivant la quantité d’information numérique, valant 1,000 (10³) octets, et dont le symbole est ko ou Ko. Note d’usage : Dans le domaine logiciel, il est e...".

No misspelling variants are generated for kilooctet in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 kilooctet, spelled K-I-L-O-O-C-T-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Unité de mesure du système international décrivant la quantité d’information numérique, valant 1,000 (10³) octets, et dont le symbole est ko ou Ko. Note d’usage : Dans le domaine logiciel, il est encore fréquent d'employer de manière inexacte le mot kilooctet (1,000 octets) à la place de kibioctet (1,024 octets) pour décrire une quantité d'information de 1024 octets.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "kilooctet"?
"kilooctet" is spelled K-I-L-O-O-C-T-E-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ki.lo.ɔk.tɛ\.
What does "kilooctet" mean?
As a noun, "kilooctet" means: Unité de mesure du système international décrivant la quantité d’information numérique, valant 1,000 (10³) octets, et dont le symbole est ko ou Ko. Note d’usage : Dans le domaine logiciel, il est e...
How do you pronounce "kilooctet"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "kilooctet" is \ki.lo.ɔk.tɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "kilooctet" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.