kys
"kys" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“kys” is uncommon English (frequency #91,712 among 1,236 “K” headwords), classed as a phrase. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,712
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of kill yourself.
Corpus desk
Index EN-kys · kys · English
kys · rank #91,712 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,712
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH Labradoodle
Nearest frequency peer: Labradoodle (+2 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.
Long-tail ranks near “kys”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Koivu
Koivu
8,298 corpus weight
- Krane
Krane
8,294 corpus weight
- kys
kys
8,289 corpus weight
- Labradoodle
Labradoodle
8,287 corpus weight
- lacunae
lacunae
8,286 corpus weight
- lambskin
lambskin
8,282 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “kys” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kys |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #91,712 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “kys” in English
Rare enough to double-check
kys is uncommon English at frequency #91,712 among 1,236 “K” headwords, classed as aphrase. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Initialism of kill yourself.".
kys has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is kys, spelled K-Y-S.
Definition
- 1Initialism of kill yourself.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how kys appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Person 1: apple juice is gross Person 2: apple juice is so good kys hater
This word in other languages
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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