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
- 110,375
- “K” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Café.
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) |
Where “kofi” sits in French frequency
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 110,375 “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.
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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Using “kofi”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is K-O-F-I - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “koh” - see the side-by-side comparison. kofi vs koh
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Words at a similar French frequency
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.