KKK
\ka ka ka\
The verdict
“KKK” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #42,425) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #42,425
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ku Klux Klan.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kkk · KKK · French
KKK · rank #42,425 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,425
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH Kirghizistan
Nearest frequency peer: Kirghizistan (-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 « KKK »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- kiel
kiel
57,579 corpus weight
- Kieran
Kieran
57,578 corpus weight
- Kirghizistan
Kirghizistan
57,577 corpus weight
- KKK
KKK
57,576 corpus weight
- klaxons
klaxons
57,575 corpus weight
- laides
laides
57,574 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « KKK » 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 | KKK |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ka ka ka\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #42,425 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « KKK »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for KKK is neighbouring look-alikes ("km", "ko", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \ka ka ka\. Frequency #42,425 among 737 “K” headwords. Gloss: "Ku Klux Klan.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for KKK in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "km", "ko", "kW", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is KKK, spelled K-K-K.
Definition
- 1Ku Klux Klan.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how KKK appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Deux membres du KKK, vêtus d'une robe blanche et encapuchonnés, tenant des fusils, posaient devant l'objectif. Derrière eux, un Noir battu à mort pendait au bout d'une corde, les yeux à demi ouverts, le visage lacéré couvert de sang.
La mère du jeune homme, Beulah MacDonald, mène un combat aussi déterminé que Mamy Till, la mère du jeune Emmett lynché vingt-cinq ans plus tôt, et obtient une victoire plus conséquente : elle parvient à faire condamner le KKK en 1987 par un jury entièrement blanc […].
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).