keum
\kœm\
The verdict
“keum” is uncommon French (frequency #82,159 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,159
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mec.
Corpus desk
Index FR-keum · keum · French
keum · rank #82,159 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,159
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH karstique
Nearest frequency peer: karstique (-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 « keum »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Kamakura
Kamakura
17,845 corpus weight
- kamas
kamas
17,844 corpus weight
- karstique
karstique
17,843 corpus weight
- keum
keum
17,842 corpus weight
- Kew
Kew
17,841 corpus weight
- Keylor
Keylor
17,840 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « keum » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | keum |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kœm\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #82,159 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « keum » en français
Rare enough to double-check
keum is uncommon French at frequency #82,159 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kœm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mec.".
Zero misspellings are on record for keum in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is keum, spelled K-E-U-M.
Definition
- 1Mec.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how keum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Soi-disant c'était la ministre des Jeunes et du Sport (Michèle Alliot-Marie). Tu aurais vu la yeuve(vieille), elle était habillée en tailleur et en talons aiguilles. Tu avais dix keums pour surveiller son keuss (sac).
Ça boit, ça fume, ça parle comme dans les cités et ça s’échange des paroles du type : « Hollande a flingué Fabius avec son référendum, vous avez vu ça, un vrai killer, le keum ».
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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