quelques
[kɛlkə]
The verdict
“quelques” is uncommon German (frequency #89,448 among 3,618 “Q” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,448
- frequency rank, German
- 3,618
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Plural Maskulinum des Adjektivs quelque
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quelques |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [kɛlkə] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #89,448 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “quelques” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
quelques is uncommon German at frequency #89,448 among 3,618 “Q” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [kɛlkə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for quelques in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable 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, 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 quelques, spelled Q-U-E-L-Q-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Plural Maskulinum des Adjektivs quelque
- 2Plural Femininum des Adjektivs quelque
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “quelques”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is Q-U-E-L-Q-U-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [kɛlkə] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.