Keane
/kiːn/
"keane" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Keane” has 6 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #20,977. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,977
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Irish.
Corpus desk
Index EN-keane · Keane · English
Keane · rank #20,977 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,977
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH Karnataka
Nearest frequency peer: Karnataka (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Keane”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Jimi
Jimi
79,028 corpus weight
- judo
judo
79,026 corpus weight
- Karnataka
Karnataka
79,025 corpus weight
- Keane
Keane
79,024 corpus weight
- Kev
Kev
79,022 corpus weight
- kilos
kilos
79,021 corpus weight
What this shows “Keane” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | Keane |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /kiːn/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #20,977 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Keane”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Keane (IPA /kiːn/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #20,977 among 1,236 “K” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A surname from Irish.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Keane, with forms such as "ekane", "kaene", and "keaen". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ken", "kee", "khan", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Probably borrowed from Irish Ó Catháin (“descendant of Cathán”). The correct English form is Keane, spelled K-E-A-N-E.
Definition
- 1A surname from Irish.
Etymology
Probably borrowed from Irish Ó Catháin (“descendant of Cathán”).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ekane
- kaene
- keaen
- keanne
- kenae
- kkeane
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Keane - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Keane", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).