km

symbol

Letters

2 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,030

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

km is aFrenchsymbol. It means: Symbole du kilomètre, unité de mesure de longueur du Système international (SI), valant 1000 mètres (10³ mètres). It ranks #1,030 in French word frequency. Often confused with ko and kW.

Key facts for km
PropertyValue
Headwordkm
LanguageFrench
Part of speechSymbol
Letters2
Frequency rank#1,030
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of km in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for km is 2 letters long, classified as asymbol. Corpus data places it at rank #1,030 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for km in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ko", "kW", "ku", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is km, spelled K-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Symbole du kilomètre, unité de mesure de longueur du Système international (SI), valant 1000 mètres (10³ mètres).
  2. 2
    Symbole du préfixe kiloméga-, utilisé par le monde anglo-saxon au XXᵉ siècle.
  3. 3
    Code ISO 639-1 (alpha-2) du khmer.

Frequency rank: #1,030 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "km"?
"km" is spelled K-M.
What does "km" mean?
As a symbol, "km" means: Symbole du kilomètre, unité de mesure de longueur du Système international (SI), valant 1000 mètres (10³ mètres).
What words are commonly confused with "km"?
"km" is commonly confused with "ko", "kW", "ku". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "km" come from?
"km" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby French words

Other entries that begin with the letter K in our French index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.