Ketty
\kɛ.ti\
The verdict
“Ketty” is uncommon French (frequency #98,144 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,144
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ketty · Ketty · French
Ketty · rank #98,144 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,144
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kermesses
Nearest frequency peer: kermesses (-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 « Ketty »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Katara
Katara
1,860 corpus weight
- kermesses
kermesses
1,858 corpus weight
- Ketty
Ketty
1,857 corpus weight
- khi
khi
1,856 corpus weight
- kickboxing
kickboxing
1,855 corpus weight
- kima
kima
1,854 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Ketty » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ketty |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kɛ.ti\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #98,144 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Ketty » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Ketty is uncommon French at frequency #98,144 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \kɛ.ti\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
Ketty doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Ketty, spelled K-E-T-T-Y.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Ketty appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À la même heure que la veille, d’Artagnan se retira. Dans le corridor il rencontra encore la jolie Ketty, c’était le nom de la soubrette.
Ketty partait en courant.
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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