Quest
[kvɛst]
The verdict
“Quest” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #17,694. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,694
- frequency rank, German
- 216
- “Q” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - in der Artusepik die Heldenreise oder Aventiure des Ritters oder Helden, in deren Verlauf er verschiedene Feinde besiegt
Corpus desk
Index DE-quest · Quest · German
Quest · rank #17,694 · 7 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,694
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 216
- PHOTO-FINISH Quarantäne
Nearest frequency peer: Quarantäne (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Quest”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Pädagogen
Pädagogen
82,310 corpus weight
- Quantität
Quantität
82,309 corpus weight
- Quarantäne
Quarantäne
82,308 corpus weight
- Quest
Quest
82,307 corpus weight
- Rangliste
Rangliste
82,306 corpus weight
- Razzia
Razzia
82,304 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Quest” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Quest |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kvɛst] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #17,694 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Quest” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Quest (IPA [kvɛst]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,694 among 216 “Q” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Quest, with forms such as "qeust", "qquest", and "quesst". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "queue", "Quint", "Quests", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Quest, spelled Q-U-E-S-T.
Definition
- 1in der Artusepik die Heldenreise oder Aventiure des Ritters oder Helden, in deren Verlauf er verschiedene Feinde besiegt
- 2Aufgabe, Auftrag in Rollenspielen und rollenspielähnlichen Computerspielen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Quest appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dies ist eine Gruppenquest und daher alleine nicht lösbar.
Der Spieler löst die Quests ohne fremde Hilfe.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- qeust
- qquest
- quesst
- questt
- quets
- quset
- uqest
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Quest - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Quest", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "Quest". Here's where to go from here.
- "Quest" maps to 10 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "queue". View pair
- 7 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #17,694 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more German words in the "Q" letter cohort. Q–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
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.