Key

"Key" in French

clé

(indispensable)

clé

(important)

caye

(small island)

clef

(device designed to open and close a lock)

clef

(crucial step)

clef

(cryptography: piece of information used to encode or decode)

clef

(computing: field of a database constrained to be unique)

clef

(computing: field in a record used as a search argument)

clef

(computing: value uniquely identifying entry in associative array)

clé

(device designed to open and close a lock)

clé

(crucial step)

clé

(cryptography: piece of information used to encode or decode)

clé

(computing: field of a database constrained to be unique)

clé

(computing: field in a record used as a search argument)

clé

(computing: value uniquely identifying entry in associative array)

légende

(small guide explaining symbols or terminology)

tonalité

(scale of musical notes)

touche

(button on a typewriter or computer keyboard)

touche

(part of a piano or musical keyboard)

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.