kes
\kɛs\
The verdict
“kes” is uncommon French (frequency #66,048 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,048
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe actif présent du verbe ké (« attendre »).
Corpus desk
Index FR-kes · kes · French
kes · rank #66,048 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,048
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH Kass
Nearest frequency peer: Kass (-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 « kes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- karmique
karmique
33,956 corpus weight
- Kass
Kass
33,954 corpus weight
- kes
kes
33,953 corpus weight
- koalas
koalas
33,952 corpus weight
- kolo
kolo
33,951 corpus weight
- kono
kono
33,950 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « kes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɛs\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #66,048 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « kes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
kes is uncommon French at frequency #66,048 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe actif présent du verbe ké (« attendre »).".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for kes, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is kes, spelled K-E-S.
Definition
- 1Participe actif 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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