kim
\cim\
The verdict
“kim” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #3,466) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #3,466
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quelle personne, qui.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kim · kim · French
kim · rank #3,466 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,466
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH justifier
Nearest frequency peer: justifier (-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 « kim »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- intelligent
intelligent
96,538 corpus weight
- italienne
italienne
96,537 corpus weight
- justifier
justifier
96,536 corpus weight
- kim
kim
96,535 corpus weight
- leçon
leçon
96,534 corpus weight
- limiter
limiter
96,533 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « kim » 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 | kim |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | \cim\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #3,466 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « kim »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for kim is neighbouring look-alikes ("km", "ko", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced \cim\. Frequency #3,466 among 737 “K” headwords. Gloss: "Quelle personne, qui.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for kim, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "km", "ko", "kW", 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 kim, spelled K-I-M.
Definition
- 1Quelle personne, qui.
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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