kWh
\ki.lo.wa.t‿œʁ\
The verdict
“kWh” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,333) as a symbol. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,333
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Symbole du kilowatt-heure, unité de mesure d’énergie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kwh · kWh · French
kWh · rank #19,333 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,333
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH Ketchup
Nearest frequency peer: Ketchup (-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 « kWh »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- jump
jump
80,671 corpus weight
- Kahn
Kahn
80,670 corpus weight
- Ketchup
Ketchup
80,669 corpus weight
- kWh
kWh
80,668 corpus weight
- Kyoto
Kyoto
80,667 corpus weight
- lai
lai
80,666 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « kWh » 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 | kWh |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Symbol |
| IPA | \ki.lo.wa.t‿œʁ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,333 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « kWh »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for kWh is neighbouring look-alikes ("ky", "kwon", …), not just typos; it is asymbol pronounced \ki.lo.wa.t‿œʁ\. Frequency #19,333 among 737 “K” headwords. Gloss: "Symbole du kilowatt-heure, unité de mesure d’énergie.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for kWh, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ky", "kwon", "K", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is kWh, spelled K-W-H.
Definition
- 1Symbole du kilowatt-heure, unité de mesure d’énergie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how kWh appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1 kWh = 3,6 MJ
La combustion de ton litre d’essence fait 10 kWh.
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.
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