keyboard
\ˈkiː.ˌbɔːd\
The verdict
“keyboard” is uncommon French (frequency #61,635 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,635
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Clavier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-keyboard · keyboard · French
keyboard · rank #61,635 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,635
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH keur
Nearest frequency peer: keur (-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 « keyboard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- jur
jur
38,371 corpus weight
- keeper
keeper
38,369 corpus weight
- keur
keur
38,367 corpus weight
- keyboard
keyboard
38,366 corpus weight
- kip
kip
38,364 corpus weight
- koba
koba
38,361 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « keyboard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | keyboard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈkiː.ˌbɔːd\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #61,635 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « keyboard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
keyboard is uncommon French at frequency #61,635 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈkiː.ˌbɔːd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for keyboard, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is keyboard, spelled K-E-Y-B-O-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Clavier.
- 2Clavier.
- 3Synthétiseur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how keyboard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
There are a couple basic ways to learn how to play the keyboard or piano.
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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