VK
\ve.ka\
The verdict
“VK” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #40,078) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #40,078
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - VKontakte, réseau social russe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vk · VK · French
VK · rank #40,078 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,078
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH visionnaires
Nearest frequency peer: visionnaires (-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 « VK »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- vexée
vexée
59,926 corpus weight
- vid
vid
59,925 corpus weight
- visionnaires
visionnaires
59,924 corpus weight
- VK
VK
59,923 corpus weight
- vla
vla
59,922 corpus weight
- vulve
vulve
59,921 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « VK » 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 | VK |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ve.ka\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #40,078 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « VK »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for VK is neighbouring look-alikes ("vu", "vs", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \ve.ka\. Frequency #40,078 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Gloss: "VKontakte, réseau social russe.".
VK 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, "vu", "vs", "vo", 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 explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is VK, spelled V-K.
Definition
- 1VKontakte, réseau social russe.
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.