kofi
The verdict
“kofi” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #49,178) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #49,178
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Café.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kofi · kofi · French
kofi · rank #49,178 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,178
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kite
Nearest frequency peer: kite (-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 « kofi »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- kala
kala
50,826 corpus weight
- Kipling
Kipling
50,825 corpus weight
- kite
kite
50,824 corpus weight
- kofi
kofi
50,823 corpus weight
- kom
kom
50,822 corpus weight
- Kravitz
Kravitz
50,821 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « kofi » 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 | kofi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #49,178 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « kofi »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for kofi is neighbouring look-alikes ("koh", "koi", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #49,178 among 737 “K” headwords. Gloss: "Café.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for kofi, with forms such as "kfoi", "kkofi", and "koif". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "koh", "koi", "kou", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is kofi, spelled K-O-F-I.
Definition
- 1Café.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how kofi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Èngôgol, ye me ne bi ékpwase kofi
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- kfoi
- kkofi
- koif
- okfi
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of kofi - 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.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "kofi", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).