Ks
\ˈkeɪz\
The verdict
“Ks” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #38,387) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #38,387
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de K’s. Pluriel de K.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ks · Ks · French
Ks · rank #38,387 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,387
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH knowledge
Nearest frequency peer: knowledge (-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 « Ks »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Kerr
Kerr
61,618 corpus weight
- Kimberly
Kimberly
61,616 corpus weight
- knowledge
knowledge
61,615 corpus weight
- Ks
Ks
61,614 corpus weight
- lad
lad
61,612 corpus weight
- lafon
lafon
61,611 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « Ks » 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 | Ks |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈkeɪz\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #38,387 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Ks »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Ks is neighbouring look-alikes ("kW", "ku", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ˈkeɪz\. Frequency #38,387 among 737 “K” headwords. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de K’s. Pluriel de K.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Ks, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "kW", "ku", "kt", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 Ks, spelled K-S.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de K’s. Pluriel de K.
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.