kilos
\ki.lo\
The verdict
“kilos” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,472. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,472
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de kilo.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kilos · kilos · French
kilos · rank #5,472 · 7 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,472
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH joues
Nearest frequency peer: joues (-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 « kilos »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- intime
intime
94,532 corpus weight
- jaloux
jaloux
94,531 corpus weight
- joues
joues
94,530 corpus weight
- kilos
kilos
94,529 corpus weight
- librement
librement
94,528 corpus weight
- look
look
94,527 corpus weight
What this shows « kilos » 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 | kilos |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ki.lo\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,472 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « kilos »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around kilos (IPA \ki.lo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,472 among 737 “K” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de kilo.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for kilos, with forms such as "iklos", "killos", and "kiloss". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "kiss", "kits", "kilt", and more, 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is kilos, spelled K-I-L-O-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de kilo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how kilos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Car la mode, c’est aussi les millions de tonnes de crèmes, poudres, laits, lotions, maquillages, démaquillants, prémaquillants, produits à se peindre, à se bronzer, à ôter la peinture, à s’oindre, à s’enduire, à se désenduire, à se pommader, à se friser, à s’onduler, à se défriser, à nourrir les cheveux, les laver, les traiter, les dépelliculer, les blond…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iklos
- killos
- kiloss
- kilso
- kiols
- kkilos
- klios
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of kilos - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).