Keene
The verdict
“Keene” is uncommon French (frequency #80,340 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,340
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille anglais ou irlandais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-keene · Keene · French
Keene · rank #80,340 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,340
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH Katowice
Nearest frequency peer: Katowice (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Keene »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Karénine
Karénine
19,664 corpus weight
- Katharina
Katharina
19,663 corpus weight
- Katowice
Katowice
19,662 corpus weight
- Keene
Keene
19,661 corpus weight
- kepel
kepel
19,660 corpus weight
- khatib
khatib
19,658 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Keene » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Keene |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #80,340 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Keene » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Keene is uncommon French at frequency #80,340 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille anglais ou irlandais.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Keene, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Keene, spelled K-E-E-N-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille anglais ou irlandais.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Keene appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jeffrey Keene, 63 ans, a expliqué sur Facebook avoir voulu lier son cours à un exercice destiné à préparer les élèves au risque d’intrusion d'un individu armé dans leur lycée, près d’Orlando, en Floride.
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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