kr
/ˈkruvdnu/
The verdict
“kr” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #38,885) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #38,885
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abréviation de couronne norvégienne (monnaie).
Corpus desk
Index FR-kr · kr · French
kr · rank #38,885 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,885
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kool
Nearest frequency peer: kool (-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 « kr »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Kampf
Kampf
61,119 corpus weight
- katana
katana
61,118 corpus weight
- kool
kool
61,117 corpus weight
- kr
kr
61,116 corpus weight
- kt
kt
61,115 corpus weight
- landing
landing
61,113 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « kr » 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 | kr |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkruvdnu/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #38,885 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « kr »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for kr is neighbouring look-alikes ("kW", "ku", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈkruvdnu/. Frequency #38,885 among 737 “K” headwords. Gloss: "Abréviation de couronne norvégienne (monnaie).".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for kr, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is kr, spelled K-R.
Definition
- 1Abréviation de couronne norvégienne (monnaie).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how kr appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
- Čállingotti badjeláiggebargu: kr 20 000
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.