Kobo

name

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The verdict

“Kobo” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,698. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#45,698
frequency rank, French
737
“K” headwords
5
tracked misspellings
18
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Société canadienne spécialisée dans les liseuses électroniques et les livres numériques.

Corpus desk

Index FR-kobo · Kobo · French

Kobo · rank #45,698 · 5 variants · 18 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #45,698
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
  • VAR-MID 5 variants
  • BOOK-MID 737
  • PHOTO-FINISH keystone

Nearest frequency peer: keystone (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Kobo »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Kobo » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Kobo vs koh
25% similar
Kobo vs koi
25% similar
Kobo vs kou
25% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Kobo
PropertyValue
HeadwordKobo
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters4
Frequency rank#45,698
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs18
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Kobo »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Kobose place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « keystone » (#45,697), « Kosciusko » (#45,699), « KTM » (#45,700). Parmi 737 lemmes en « K », « Kobo » est au #45,698. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 5 spelling variants around Kobo, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #45,698 among 737 “K” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Société canadienne spécialisée dans les liseuses électroniques et les livres numériques.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Kobo, with forms such as "kboo", "kkobo", and "kobbo". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "koh", "koi", "kou", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Kobo, spelled K-O-B-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    Société canadienne spécialisée dans les liseuses électroniques et les livres numériques.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Kobo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ce modèle est également celui de Kobo, avec une proposition affichée à 9,99 € par mois, compatible avec ses liseuses, les smartphones et les tablettes.
  2. Pendant plusieurs jours, les meilleures liseuses numériques Kobo by Fnac sont à prix cassé, voici les détails de ces bons plans à durée limitée.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • kboo
  • kkobo
  • kobbo
  • koob
  • okbo

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Kobo - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

kboo2kkobo1kobbo1koob2okbo2
Edit distance from "Kobo"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Kobo"?
"Kobo" is spelled K-O-B-O.
What does "Kobo" mean?
As a proper noun, "Kobo" means: Société canadienne spécialisée dans les liseuses électroniques et les livres numériques.
What words are commonly confused with "Kobo"?
"Kobo" is commonly confused with "koh", "koi", "kou". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "Kobo" come from?
"Kobo" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Kobo", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

loth#45,714Lviv#45,719meuh#45,732houx#45,659

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).

Iouri5 variantsmino5 variantsmoya5 variantsNelle5 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list