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kecks

noun

kecks is spelled K-E-C-K-S: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 68 million words in written English, the 258,950th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, kecks means “Trousers” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in kecks?

Letters5: K-E-C-K-S
In writingabout once in every 68 million words; the 258,950th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is kecks?

Kecks appears about once in every 68 million words in written English, the 258,950th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce kecks?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-kecks.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of kecks

  • keks
  • kegs
  • kaks

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does kecks mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    ScotlandTrousers.

  2. 2

    ScotlandUnderpants.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does kecks come from?

From earlier kicks (“breeches”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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