kms
The verdict
“kms” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #27,107) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #27,107
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Utilisé pour montrer la frustration.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kms · kms · French
kms · rank #27,107 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,107
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH justifications
Nearest frequency peer: justifications (-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 « kms »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- jacobins
jacobins
72,897 corpus weight
- Joubert
Joubert
72,896 corpus weight
- justificati…
justifications
72,895 corpus weight
- kms
kms
72,894 corpus weight
- lia
lia
72,893 corpus weight
- lient
lient
72,892 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « kms » 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 | kms |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #27,107 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « kms »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for kms is neighbouring look-alikes ("ko", "kW", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection. Frequency #27,107 among 737 “K” headwords. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how kms appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
i left my wallet at home kms i don't wanna go back and get it
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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