Kiefer
The verdict
“Kiefer” is uncommon French (frequency #64,554 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,554
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kiefer · Kiefer · French
Kiefer · rank #64,554 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,554
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH Kacem
Nearest frequency peer: Kacem (-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 « Kiefer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- juteuses
juteuses
35,449 corpus weight
- Kacem
Kacem
35,448 corpus weight
- Kiefer
Kiefer
35,447 corpus weight
- korn
korn
35,445 corpus weight
- krause
krause
35,444 corpus weight
- labours
labours
35,443 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Kiefer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kiefer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,554 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Kiefer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Kiefer is uncommon French at frequency #64,554 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Kiefer in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Kiefer, spelled K-I-E-F-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Kiefer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ken Kiefer, un photographe sous-marin de Houston (États-Unis), s’est approché au plus près d’un grand requin blanc, au large du Mexique.
Des éléments d’une œuvre en plomb de la star de l’art contemporain Anselm Kiefer ont été dérobés jeudi dans un entrepôt de Seine-et-Marne, a indiqué, vendredi, le parquet de Meaux.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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