keren
The verdict
“keren” is uncommon French (frequency #76,722 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,722
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tourner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-keren · keren · French
keren · rank #76,722 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,722
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH khao
Nearest frequency peer: khao (+2 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 « keren »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- jumel
jumel
23,286 corpus weight
- kagan
kagan
23,285 corpus weight
- keren
keren
23,279 corpus weight
- khao
khao
23,277 corpus weight
- kidnappées
kidnappées
23,275 corpus weight
- kirin
kirin
23,274 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « keren » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | keren |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #76,722 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « keren » en français
Rare enough to double-check
keren is uncommon French at frequency #76,722 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for keren in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is keren, spelled K-E-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1Tourner.
- 2Barrer, arrêter, faire barrage à.
- 3Se tourner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how keren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Zich keren tegen iemand.
Zich keren tot iemend.
Synonyms
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).