PKK
\pe.ka.ka\
The verdict
“PKK” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #27,183) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #27,183
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Parti des travailleurs du Kurdistan.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pkk · PKK · French
PKK · rank #27,183 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,183
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pitbull
Nearest frequency peer: pitbull (-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 « PKK »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Phelps
Phelps
72,821 corpus weight
- phi
phi
72,820 corpus weight
- pitbull
pitbull
72,819 corpus weight
- PKK
PKK
72,818 corpus weight
- plaçait
plaçait
72,817 corpus weight
- plumage
plumage
72,816 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « PKK » 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 | PKK |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.ka.ka\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #27,183 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « PKK »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for PKK is neighbouring look-alikes ("pu", "PS", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \pe.ka.ka\. Frequency #27,183 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Parti des travailleurs du Kurdistan.".
PKK has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pu", "PS", "PQ", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 PKK, spelled P-K-K.
Definition
- 1Parti des travailleurs du Kurdistan.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how PKK appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pendant plusieurs années, il joue le rôle d’intermédiaire du président dans les tractations secrètes avec la guérilla kurde du Parti des travailleurs du Kurdistan (PKK).
Le PKK a revendiqué un attentat contre le siège de la police à Ankara, en Turquie, qui a fait deux blessés dimanche.
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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