keh
\kɛ\
The verdict
“keh” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 3
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pute, prostituée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-keh · keh · French
keh · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "K" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | keh |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɛ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « keh » en français
Rare enough to double-check
keh is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pute, prostituée.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for keh, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is keh, spelled K-E-H.
Definition
- 1Pute, prostituée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how keh appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A Rue89, on a d’abord été interloqués par ce slogan affiché devant le lycée Hélène-Boucher à Paris : « On n’est pas les kekekeh à Khomrito. » L’image, tweetée par un étudiant en journalisme, a été particulièrement reprise et commentée par les lycéens sur Twitter. Le slogan est en fait un détournement de l’expression « la keh [la pute, ndlr] à Mojito ». La…
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.