keen
/kiːn/
The verdict
“keen” sits in 12 confusable pairs (corpus #44,278) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #44,278
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 248
- “K” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Entusiasta.
Corpus desk
Index ES-keen · keen · Spanish
keen · rank #44,278 · 4 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,278
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 248
- PHOTO-FINISH lances
Nearest frequency peer: lances (+1 rank slots)
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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “keen”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- JAL
JAL
55,730 corpus weight
- kar
kar
55,725 corpus weight
- keen
keen
55,723 corpus weight
- lances
lances
55,722 corpus weight
- landing
landing
55,721 corpus weight
- leed
leed
55,717 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “keen” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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 | keen |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /kiːn/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #44,278 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “keen”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for keen is neighbouring look-alikes ("ken", "kun", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced /kiːn/. Frequency #44,278 among 248 “K” headwords. 5 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for keen, with forms such as "eken", "keenn", and "kene". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "ken", "kun", "key", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is keen, spelled K-E-E-N.
Definition
- 1Entusiasta.
- 2Aplicado.
- 3Afilado.
- 4Agudo.
- 5Vivo.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eken
- keenn
- kene
- kkeen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of keen - 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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "keen"?
What does "keen" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "keen"?
How do you pronounce "keen"?
What language does "keen" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "keen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).