xo
\xɔ\
The verdict
“xo” sits in 18 confusable pairs (corpus #41,078) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #41,078
- frequency rank, French
- 62
- “X” headwords
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lieu, endroit, espace.
Corpus desk
Index FR-xo · xo · French
xo · rank #41,078 · 0 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,078
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 62
- PHOTO-FINISH wolof
Nearest frequency peer: wolof (-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 « xo »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- wise
wise
58,925 corpus weight
- wolof
wolof
58,924 corpus weight
- xo
xo
58,923 corpus weight
- Yasmine
Yasmine
58,922 corpus weight
- youhou
youhou
58,921 corpus weight
- Youssouf
Youssouf
58,920 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « xo » 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 | xo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \xɔ\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #41,078 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « xo »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for xo is neighbouring look-alikes ("XV", "XX", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \xɔ\. Frequency #41,078 among 62 “X” headwords. Gloss: "Lieu, endroit, espace.".
No misspelling variants are generated for xo in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "XV", "XX", "XP", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is xo, spelled X-O.
Definition
- 1Lieu, endroit, espace.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how xo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jadion, bano xo tir mu namulol .
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.