kes

/\kɛs\/ verb

Letters

3 characters

Frequency Rank

#66,048

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

kes is aFrenchverb. It means: Participe actif présent du verbe ké (« attendre »). Pronounced \kɛs\.

Key facts for kes
PropertyValue
Headwordkes
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kɛs\
Letters3
Frequency rank#66,048
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of kes in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for kes is 3 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɛs\. Corpus data places it at rank #66,048 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Participe actif présent du verbe ké (« attendre »).".

No misspelling variants are generated for kes in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is kes, spelled K-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Participe actif présent du verbe ké (« attendre »).

Frequency rank: #66,048 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "kes"?
"kes" is spelled K-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \kɛs\.
What does "kes" mean?
As a verb, "kes" means: Participe actif présent du verbe ké (« attendre »).
How do you pronounce "kes"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "kes" is \kɛs\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "kes" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.