koi
\kɔj\
The verdict
“koi” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #29,838) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #29,838
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Autre orthographe de koï (race de carpe du Japon, aussi appelée carpe japonaise).
Corpus desk
Index FR-koi · koi · French
koi · rank #29,838 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,838
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH Kind
Nearest frequency peer: Kind (-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 « koi »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- karting
karting
70,166 corpus weight
- kidnapper
kidnapper
70,165 corpus weight
- Kind
Kind
70,164 corpus weight
- koi
koi
70,163 corpus weight
- lagon
lagon
70,161 corpus weight
- lampadaire
lampadaire
70,160 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « koi » 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 | koi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔj\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #29,838 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « koi »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for koi is neighbouring look-alikes ("kW", "ku", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \kɔj\. Frequency #29,838 among 737 “K” headwords. Gloss: "Autre orthographe de koï (race de carpe du Japon, aussi appelée carpe japonaise).".
No generated misspelling entries exist for koi in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is koi, spelled K-O-I.
Definition
- 1Autre orthographe de koï (race de carpe du Japon, aussi appelée carpe japonaise).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how koi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La carpe koi arbore diverses couleurs : rouge, blanc, jaune, noir…
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
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).