képi
\ke.pi\
The verdict
“képi” is uncommon French (frequency #57,365 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,365
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de coiffure semi-rigide, à fond plat, en drap, munie d’une visière, en usage dans certaines armées.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kepi · képi · French
képi · rank #57,365 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,365
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH lacrosse
Nearest frequency peer: lacrosse (+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 « képi »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- knew
knew
42,638 corpus weight
- képi
képi
42,636 corpus weight
- lacrosse
lacrosse
42,635 corpus weight
- Laliberté
Laliberté
42,634 corpus weight
- lanière
lanière
42,633 corpus weight
- Laprade
Laprade
42,632 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « képi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | képi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ke.pi\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #57,365 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « képi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
képi is uncommon French at frequency #57,365 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ke.pi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for képi, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 képi, spelled K-É-P-I.
Definition
- 1Sorte de coiffure semi-rigide, à fond plat, en drap, munie d’une visière, en usage dans certaines armées.
- 2Coiffure que portent les employés de certaines administrations.
- 3Policier, spécialement policier en uniforme ou un membre des forces de l'ordre en général (police, gendarmes).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how képi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Juliette prit dans le meuble un album cartonné qu’elle feuilleta sur la table. Aux premières pages, Marguerite avisa un franc-tireur coiffé d’un képi en galette, et crânement appuyé sur le canon de son fusil.
« Qu’est-ce que c’est que ce monsieur-là ? demanda Ambroise tout ahuri à Emmanuel qui avait ôté respectueusement son képi.
This word in other languages
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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