king

\kiŋ\

/\kiŋ\/ noun

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The verdict

“king” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,159. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#4,159
frequency rank, French
737
“K” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qing. Unité traditionnelle chinoise de surface agricole, valant 100 meou ou environ 6 hectares.

Corpus desk

Index FR-king · king · French

king · rank #4,159 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #4,159
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-MID 737
  • PHOTO-FINISH inspiration

Nearest frequency peer: inspiration (-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 « king »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « king » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

king vs kit
50% similar
king vs kun
50% similar
king vs kong
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for king
PropertyValue
Headwordking
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kiŋ\
Letters4
Frequency rank#4,159
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « king »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).kingse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « inspiration » (#4,158), « libéraux » (#4,160), « inscrits » (#4,157). Parmi 737 lemmes en « K », « king » est au #4,159. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around king (IPA \kiŋ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,159 among 737 “K” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qing. Unité traditionnelle chinoise de surface agricole, valant 100 meou ou environ 6 hectares.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for king, with forms such as "ikng", "kign", and "kingg". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "kit", "kun", "kong", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is king, spelled K-I-N-G.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qing. Unité traditionnelle chinoise de surface agricole, valant 100 meou ou environ 6 hectares.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how king appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Cent méou font un king.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ikng
  • kign
  • kingg
  • kinng
  • kking
  • knig

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of king - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ikng2kign2kingg1kinng1kking1knig2
Edit distance from "king"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "king"?
"king" is spelled K-I-N-G. The IPA pronunciation is \kiŋ\.
What does "king" mean?
As a noun, "king" means: Qing. Unité traditionnelle chinoise de surface agricole, valant 100 meou ou environ 6 hectares.
What words are commonly confused with "king"?
"king" is commonly confused with "kit", "kun", "kong". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "king"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "king" is \kiŋ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "king" come from?
"king" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "king", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

haha#4,154mené#4,164four#4,150park#4,173

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

foutu6 variantspiano6 variantsValls6 variantsseins6 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list