kms
The verdict
“kms” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #27,107 in French word frequency and used as an interjection.
- #27,107
- frequency rank, French
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Utilisé pour montrer la frustration.
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 | kms |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #27,107 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “kms” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for kms is 3 letters long, classified as an interjection. Corpus data places it at rank #27,107 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Utilisé pour montrer la frustration.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for kms in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ko", "kW", "ku", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is kms, spelled K-M-S.
Definition
- 1Utilisé pour montrer la frustration.
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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Using “kms”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is K-M-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “ko” - see the side-by-side comparison. kms vs ko
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.