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
- 110,375
- “K” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Vaste plaine constituant la partie orientale de la province du Kosovo telle qu’on la connaît actuellement.
| 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) |
Where “Kosovo” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Kosovo (IPA \ko.so.vo\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #16,926 among 110,375 “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.
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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Using “Kosovo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is K-O-S-O-V-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ko.so.vo\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.