Kyoto
\kjo.to\
The verdict
“Kyoto” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,334. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,334
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville du Japon située dans la région du Kansaï, dans le Japon occidental, proche d’Osaka. L’ancienne capitale de ce pays jusqu’en 1868 (comme ville impériale) ou jusqu’en 1192 (comme centre politiq...
Corpus desk
Index FR-kyoto · Kyoto · French
Kyoto · rank #19,334 · 7 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,334
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kWh
Nearest frequency peer: kWh (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Kyoto »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- 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
- lulu
lulu
80,664 corpus weight
What this shows « Kyoto » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | Kyoto |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kjo.to\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #19,334 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Kyoto »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Kyoto (IPA \kjo.to\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #19,334 among 737 “K” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Kyoto, with forms such as "kkyoto", "koyto", and "kyoot". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "kyste", "Kobo", "kato", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Kyoto, spelled K-Y-O-T-O.
Definition
- 1Ville du Japon située dans la région du Kansaï, dans le Japon occidental, proche d’Osaka. L’ancienne capitale de ce pays jusqu’en 1868 (comme ville impériale) ou jusqu’en 1192 (comme centre politique).
- 2Préfecture du Japon, dont la capitale est la précédente.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Kyoto appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un cultivateur de riz, un autre de thé, un ostréiculteur, un moine bouddhiste cuisinier, un forgeron de katana, un champion de plongée libre, une geiko (geisha de Kyoto) ou encore une jeune karatéka témoignent de leur quotidien et de l’importance qu’ils accordent à la composante spirituelle de ce qui les environne ainsi que de leur attachement aux traditi…
Les joueurs incarnent des voyageurs de Tokaïdo, la route de la mer, entre Kyoto et Edo.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- kkyoto
- koyto
- kyoot
- kyotto
- kytoo
- kyyoto
- ykoto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Kyoto - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).