kesh
"kesh" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“kesh” is uncommon English (frequency #76,034 among 9,255 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,034
- frequency rank, English
- 9,255
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A basket of branches and stones placed underwater as the base of a causeway.
Corpus desk
Index EN-kesh · kesh · English
kesh · rank #76,034 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,034
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 9,255
- PHOTO-FINISH Keough
Nearest frequency peer: Keough (-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 “kesh”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Kelantan
Kelantan
23,970 corpus weight
- keng
keng
23,969 corpus weight
- Keough
Keough
23,968 corpus weight
- kesh
kesh
23,967 corpus weight
- Khoo
Khoo
23,965 corpus weight
- Kimba
Kimba
23,964 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “kesh” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kesh |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #76,034 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “kesh” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
kesh is uncommon English at frequency #76,034 among 9,255 “K” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A basket of branches and stones placed underwater as the base of a causeway.".
kesh doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Irish cis (“basket”). Doublet of cesta, chest, cist, and kist The correct English form is kesh, spelled K-E-S-H.
Definition
- 1A basket of branches and stones placed underwater as the base of a causeway.
Etymology
Borrowed from Irish cis (“basket”). Doublet of cesta, chest, cist, and kist
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.