ku
\ky\
The verdict
“ku” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #22,917) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #22,917
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lettre latine Q, q.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ku · ku · French
ku · rank #22,917 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,917
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kingdom
Nearest frequency peer: kingdom (-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 « ku »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- kart
kart
77,087 corpus weight
- Khaled
Khaled
77,086 corpus weight
- kingdom
kingdom
77,085 corpus weight
- ku
ku
77,084 corpus weight
- lançait
lançait
77,083 corpus weight
- laon
laon
77,082 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ku » 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 | ku |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ky\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #22,917 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ku »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ku is neighbouring look-alikes ("kW", "KV", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ky\. Frequency #22,917 among 737 “K” headwords. Gloss: "Lettre latine Q, q.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ku in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "kW", "KV", "ky", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ku, spelled K-U.
Definition
- 1Lettre latine Q, q.
This word in other languages
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.