ko
\ko\
The verdict
“ko” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,864) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,864
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Configuration cyclique de pions, si fréquente que des règles spécifiques la traitent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ko · ko · French
ko · rank #9,864 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,864
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH justes
Nearest frequency peer: justes (-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 « ko »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- jouir
jouir
90,140 corpus weight
- justes
justes
90,138 corpus weight
- ko
ko
90,137 corpus weight
- laïque
laïque
90,136 corpus weight
- lens
lens
90,135 corpus weight
- liaisons
liaisons
90,134 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ko » 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 | ko |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ko\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #9,864 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ko »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ko is neighbouring look-alikes ("kW", "ku", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ko\. Frequency #9,864 among 737 “K” headwords. Gloss: "Configuration cyclique de pions, si fréquente que des règles spécifiques la traitent.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ko, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "kW", "ku", "Ks", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is ko, spelled K-O.
Definition
- 1Configuration cyclique de pions, si fréquente que des règles spécifiques la traitent.
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.