kin
\kin\
The verdict
“kin” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #29,012) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #29,012
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Guqin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kin · kin · French
kin · rank #29,012 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,012
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kiffer
Nearest frequency peer: kiffer (-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 « kin »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- kiff
kiff
70,991 corpus weight
- kiffer
kiffer
70,990 corpus weight
- kin
kin
70,989 corpus weight
- Kirsten
Kirsten
70,988 corpus weight
- kiwi
kiwi
70,987 corpus weight
- lacet
lacet
70,986 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « kin » 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 | kin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kin\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #29,012 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « kin »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for kin is neighbouring look-alikes ("km", "ko", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \kin\. Frequency #29,012 among 737 “K” headwords. Gloss: "Guqin.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for kin, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "km", "ko", "kW", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is kin, spelled K-I-N.
Definition
- 1Guqin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how kin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
M. le ministre de l’Intérieur (don fait au Gouvernement par M. Hubert Serruys, consul général de Belgique en Chine) : deux instruments à percussion en bois en forme de grelot, avec leur percuteur ; […] une trompette conque (Cat. du Musée nᵒˢ 56, 57, 58, 59, 60 et 142) ; un kin, sorte de psalterion ; un tseng-tche ou yang-kin, presque semblable au tympanon…
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).