kieffer
\ki.fe\
The verdict
“kieffer” is uncommon French (frequency #54,677 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,677
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se droguer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kieffer · kieffer · French
kieffer · rank #54,677 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,677
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH Keira
Nearest frequency peer: Keira (-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 « kieffer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- kaléidoscope
kaléidoscope
45,330 corpus weight
- Keira
Keira
45,325 corpus weight
- kieffer
kieffer
45,324 corpus weight
- knife
knife
45,323 corpus weight
- Konan
Konan
45,322 corpus weight
- Kraus
Kraus
45,320 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « kieffer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kieffer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ki.fe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,677 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « kieffer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
kieffer is uncommon French at frequency #54,677 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ki.fe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
kieffer doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is kieffer, spelled K-I-E-F-F-E-R.
Definition
- 1Se droguer.
- 2Aimer, apprécier franchement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how kieffer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un endroit rêvé pour Kieffer, dit-il.
j'ai kieffé le rap roots.. dommage le site internet à pas l'air d'être très actif.. encore moins interactif
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).