keuf
\kœf\
The verdict
“keuf” is uncommon French (frequency #71,645 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,645
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Policier ; agent de police.
Corpus desk
Index FR-keuf · keuf · French
keuf · rank #71,645 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,645
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kee
Nearest frequency peer: kee (-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 « keuf »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- kasbah
kasbah
28,360 corpus weight
- Kauffmann
Kauffmann
28,359 corpus weight
- kee
kee
28,357 corpus weight
- keuf
keuf
28,356 corpus weight
- kirghize
kirghize
28,355 corpus weight
- Kisangani
Kisangani
28,354 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « keuf » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | keuf |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kœf\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #71,645 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « keuf » en français
Rare enough to double-check
keuf is uncommon French at frequency #71,645 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kœf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
keuf doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 keuf, spelled K-E-U-F.
Definition
- 1Policier ; agent de police.
- 2Police.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how keuf appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Y paraît qu’un keuf a paumé un calibre dans la cité cette nuit.
Et les meufs et les keufs dans le RER, la banlieue c'est pas rose, la banlieue c'est morose
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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