kom
\kɔm\
The verdict
“kom” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #49,179) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #49,179
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ton (de la voix).
Corpus desk
Index FR-kom · kom · French
kom · rank #49,179 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,179
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kofi
Nearest frequency peer: kofi (-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 « kom »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- 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
- kwon
kwon
50,820 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « kom » 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 | kom |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔm\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #49,179 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « kom »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for kom is neighbouring look-alikes ("kW", "ku", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \kɔm\. Frequency #49,179 among 737 “K” headwords. Gloss: "Ton (de la voix).".
No misspelling variants are generated for kom in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "kW", "ku", "Ks", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is kom, spelled K-O-M.
Definition
- 1Ton (de la voix).
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).