ek
\ɛk\
The verdict
“ek” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #42,851) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #42,851
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pronom personnel sujet de la première personne du singulier : je.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ek · ek · French
ek · rank #42,851 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,851
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH effleure
Nearest frequency peer: effleure (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “ek”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- détruis
détruis
57,154 corpus weight
- déviations
déviations
57,153 corpus weight
- effleure
effleure
57,151 corpus weight
- ek
ek
57,150 corpus weight
- emotion
emotion
57,147 corpus weight
- enfouies
enfouies
57,146 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “ek” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | ek |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | \ɛk\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #42,851 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “ek” se place dans la fréquence du français
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ek is neighbouring look-alikes ("et", "en", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced \ɛk\. Frequency #42,851 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Gloss: "Pronom personnel sujet de la première personne du singulier : je.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ek, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "et", "en", "Eu", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ek, spelled E-K.
Definition
- 1Pronom personnel sujet de la première personne du singulier : je.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ek appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ek kom uit Namibië.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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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.