keyes
\kɛˈjεs\
The verdict
“keyes” is uncommon French (frequency #63,119 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,119
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe actif passé du verbe ké (« attendre »).
Corpus desk
Index FR-keyes · keyes · French
keyes · rank #63,119 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,119
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kendo
Nearest frequency peer: kendo (-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 « keyes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- jubé
jubé
36,887 corpus weight
- Karate
Karate
36,885 corpus weight
- kem
kem
36,884 corpus weight
- kendo
kendo
36,883 corpus weight
- keyes
keyes
36,882 corpus weight
- Klapisch
Klapisch
36,878 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « keyes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | keyes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɛˈjεs\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #63,119 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « keyes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
keyes is uncommon French at frequency #63,119 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɛˈjεs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe actif passé du verbe ké (« attendre »).".
keyes has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is keyes, spelled K-E-Y-E-S.
Definition
- 1Participe actif passé du verbe ké (« attendre »).
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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