kees
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The verdict
“kees” is uncommon German (frequency #75,850 among 4,158 “K” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,850
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 3. Person Plural Imperfekt Indikativ Aktiv des Verbs keema
Corpus desk
Index DE-kees · kees · German
kees · rank #75,850 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,850
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Kathode
Nearest frequency peer: Kathode (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „kees“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Kartoffelch…
Kartoffelchips
24,154 corpus weight
- kast
kast
24,153 corpus weight
- Kathode
Kathode
24,152 corpus weight
- kees
kees
24,151 corpus weight
- keystone
keystone
24,150 corpus weight
- Kirchenordn…
Kirchenordnung
24,147 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „kees“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kees |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #75,850 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „kees“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
kees is uncommon German at frequency #75,850 among 4,158 “K” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "3. Person Plural Imperfekt Indikativ Aktiv des Verbs keema".
No misspelling variants are generated for kees in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is kees, spelled K-E-E-S.
Definition
- 13. Person Plural Imperfekt Indikativ Aktiv des Verbs keema
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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