ke
\ˈke\
The verdict
“ke” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,717) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,717
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe kam.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ke · ke · French
ke · rank #14,717 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,717
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH Katherine
Nearest frequency peer: Katherine (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « ke »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- joey
joey
85,287 corpus weight
- Katherine
Katherine
85,285 corpus weight
- ke
ke
85,284 corpus weight
- Kenny
Kenny
85,283 corpus weight
- latéraux
latéraux
85,282 corpus weight
- libraire
libraire
85,281 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ke » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des 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 | ke |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈke\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #14,717 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ke »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ke is neighbouring look-alikes ("km", "kg", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \ˈke\. Frequency #14,717 among 737 “K” headwords. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe kam.".
Zero misspellings are on record for ke in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "km", "kg", "ki", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is ke, spelled K-E.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe kam.
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.