Quant
[kvant]
The verdict
“Quant” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - kleines Elementarteilchen, Korpuskel bei elektromagnetischer Strahlung
Corpus desk
Index DE-quant · Quant · German
Quant · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "Q" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Quant |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kvant] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Quant“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Quant is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [kvant]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Quant in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Quant, spelled Q-U-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1kleines Elementarteilchen, Korpuskel bei elektromagnetischer Strahlung
- 2kleinster Wert physikalischer Größen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Quant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ein Quant wurde emittiert.
„Oft wird mit dem physikalischen Begriff Quant ein Teilchencharakter der betrachteten Größe assoziiert. Dies ist jedoch nur ein Teil der eigentlichen Bedeutung des Begriffs. Ein Beispiel für ein Quant, dem man keinen Teilchencharakter zuschreiben kann, ist das Drehimpulsquant.“
Synonyms
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.