keV
The verdict
“keV” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #23,595) as a symbol. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #23,595
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Symbole du kiloélectronvolt, unité de mesure d’énergie en dehors du Système international (mais dont l’usage est accepté avec le SI), valant 10³ électronvolts.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kev · keV · French
keV · rank #23,595 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,595
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH Johannesburg
Nearest frequency peer: Johannesburg (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « keV »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- jauge
jauge
76,408 corpus weight
- Johannesburg
Johannesburg
76,407 corpus weight
- keV
keV
76,406 corpus weight
- licencier
licencier
76,405 corpus weight
- liquider
liquider
76,404 corpus weight
- lucia
lucia
76,403 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « keV » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | keV |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Symbol |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #23,595 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « keV »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for keV is neighbouring look-alikes ("km", "kg", …), not just typos; it is asymbol. Frequency #23,595 among 737 “K” headwords. Gloss: "Symbole du kiloélectronvolt, unité de mesure d’énergie en dehors du Système international (mais dont l’usage est accepté avec le SI), valant 10³ électronvolts.".
keV doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "km", "kg", "ki", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is keV, spelled K-E-V.
Definition
- 1Symbole du kiloélectronvolt, unité de mesure d’énergie en dehors du Système international (mais dont l’usage est accepté avec le SI), valant 10³ électronvolts.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how keV appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1 keV ≈ 160,218 aJ
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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