kepel
\kεˈpεl\
The verdict
“kepel” is uncommon French (frequency #80,341 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,341
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de kepé, ké (« attendre ») avec le l’infixe -p-, soit : « tu attends beaucoup ».
Corpus desk
Index FR-kepel · kepel · French
kepel · rank #80,341 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,341
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH Keene
Nearest frequency peer: Keene (-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 « kepel »
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 « kepel » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kepel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kεˈpεl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #80,341 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « kepel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
kepel is uncommon French at frequency #80,341 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kεˈpεl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de kepé, ké (« attendre ») avec le l’infixe -p-, soit : « tu attends beaucoup ».".
kepel has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is kepel, spelled K-E-P-E-L.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de kepé, ké (« attendre ») avec le l’infixe -p-, soit : « tu attends beaucoup ».
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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