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keyset

noun

keyset is spelled K-E-Y-S-E-T: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 36 million words in written English, the 184,844th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, keyset means “An input device whose few keys can be pressed in many combinations, often simultaneously, to enter different commands or characters” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of keyset is keysets.

How many letters and syllables are in keyset?

Letters6: K-E-Y-S-E-T
In writingabout once in every 36 million words; the 184,844th 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 keyset?

Keyset appears about once in every 36 million words in written English, the 184,844th 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 keyset?

  • UK

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-keyset.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of keyset

  • keysets plural

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

What does keyset mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    An input device whose few keys can be pressed in many combinations, often simultaneously, to enter different commands or characters.

  2. 2

    A set of keys (unique identifiers) used to distinguish the rows of data being traversed by a cursor.

  3. 3

    rareA collection of keys on a typewriter or keyboard.

    This typewriter has a numeric keyset to the right of the standard alphanumeric keyset.

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

Where does keyset come from?

From key + set.

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

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