Ke
"ke" is a 2-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Ke” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,978) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,978
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ke · Ke · English
Ke · rank #14,978 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,978
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH kangaroo
Nearest frequency peer: kangaroo (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Ke”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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85,026 corpus weight
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85,025 corpus weight
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kangaroo
85,024 corpus weight
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Ke
85,023 corpus weight
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85,022 corpus weight
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85,021 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Ke” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | Ke |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #14,978 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Ke” sits in English frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Ke is neighbouring look-alikes ("kI", "ky", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun. Frequency #14,978 among 1,236 “K” headwords. Gloss: "A surname.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Ke, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "kI", "ky", "ko", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From the Chinese surname, from 柯 (kē). More at Ke. The correct English form is Ke, spelled K-E.
Definition
- 1A surname.
Etymology
From the Chinese surname, from 柯 (kē). More at Ke.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- "Ke" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "kI". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #14,978 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.