Kosovo
\ko.so.vo\
The verdict
“Kosovo” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,926. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,926
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vaste plaine constituant la partie orientale de la province du Kosovo telle qu’on la connaît actuellement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kosovo · Kosovo · French
Kosovo · rank #16,926 · 8 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,926
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH jung
Nearest frequency peer: jung (-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 « Kosovo »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Jamaïque
Jamaïque
83,078 corpus weight
- jung
jung
83,076 corpus weight
- Kosovo
Kosovo
83,075 corpus weight
- laden
laden
83,074 corpus weight
- lard
lard
83,073 corpus weight
- legs
legs
83,072 corpus weight
What this shows « Kosovo » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kosovo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ko.so.vo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #16,926 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Kosovo »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Kosovo (IPA \ko.so.vo\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #16,926 among 737 “K” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Kosovo, with forms such as "kkosovo", "koosvo", and "kosoov". 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. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Kosovo, spelled K-O-S-O-V-O.
Definition
- 1Vaste plaine constituant la partie orientale de la province du Kosovo telle qu’on la connaît actuellement.
- 2Territoire au statut contesté (pays indépendant ou région autonome serbe) situé en Europe du Sud dans les Balkans et en ex-Yougoslavie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Kosovo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Marko Kraliévitch, homme rocher, était l’image virile de la force ; les veuves de Kosovo enlacées et pleurant leurs morts me chuchotaient que le deuil est encore une forme de volupté.
En 2000, je suis allé au Kosovo et j'ai revêtu une de ces cuirasses des démineurs. C'est lourd, ça pèse trente-cinq kilos.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- kkosovo
- koosvo
- kosoov
- kosovvo
- kossovo
- kosvoo
- ksoovo
- oksovo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Kosovo - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).