kitsch
\kitʃ\
The verdict
“kitsch” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,321. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,321
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - De mauvais goût, surchargé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kitsch · kitsch · French
kitsch · rank #33,321 · 10 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #33,321
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH Khalid
Nearest frequency peer: Khalid (-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 « kitsch »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Jenner
Jenner
66,683 corpus weight
- jouissif
jouissif
66,682 corpus weight
- Khalid
Khalid
66,681 corpus weight
- kitsch
kitsch
66,680 corpus weight
- Labeaume
Labeaume
66,679 corpus weight
- labelle
labelle
66,678 corpus weight
What this shows « kitsch » 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 | kitsch |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kitʃ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #33,321 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « kitsch »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around kitsch (IPA \kitʃ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #33,321 among 737 “K” headwords. Dominant gloss: "De mauvais goût, surchargé.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for kitsch, with forms such as "iktsch", "kistch", and "kitcsh". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "kits", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is kitsch, spelled K-I-T-S-C-H.
Definition
- 1De mauvais goût, surchargé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how kitsch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après avoir loué les subtils détournements de Duchamp et Warhol opérés dans The Early (1979), The New (1980) ou Banality (1988), la plupart des critiques ont fait chorus pour dénoncer l'œuvre kitsch, publicitairement et prostitutionnellement middle class, l'idéal puritain ou « téflon » du corps slick, de la peau sans pore, de la sexualité sans sécrétion d…
C'est une installation bien kitsch désormais : il y a une fontaine, un alignement de jets d'eau qui pulsent autour d'un petit bassin en béton. Deux bancs et une plate-bande de fleurs complètent le tableau.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iktsch
- kistch
- kitcsh
- kitscch
- kitschh
- kitshc
- kitssch
- kittsch
- kkitsch
- ktisch
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of kitsch - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).