kel
\kɛl\
The verdict
“kel” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #41,370) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #41,370
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier du présent du verbe ké (« attendre »).
Corpus desk
Index FR-kel · kel · French
kel · rank #41,370 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,370
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kcal
Nearest frequency peer: kcal (-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 « kel »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- jupon
jupon
58,635 corpus weight
- Juvisy
Juvisy
58,634 corpus weight
- kazakh
kazakh
58,633 corpus weight
- kcal
kcal
58,632 corpus weight
- kel
kel
58,631 corpus weight
- Khrouchtchev
Khrouchtchev
58,629 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « kel » 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 | kel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɛl\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #41,370 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « kel »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for kel is neighbouring look-alikes ("km", "kg", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \kɛl\. Frequency #41,370 among 737 “K” headwords. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier du présent du verbe ké (« attendre »).".
Zero misspellings are on record for kel in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "km", "kg", "ki", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is kel, spelled K-E-L.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier du présent du verbe ké (« attendre »).
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).