quinta

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The verdict

“quinta” is uncommon German (frequency #65,601 among 216 “Q” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#65,601
frequency rank, German
216
“Q” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nominativ Singular Femininum des Adjektivs quintus

Corpus desk

Index DE-quinta · quinta · German

quinta · rank #65,601 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #65,601
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 216
  • PHOTO-FINISH quai

Nearest frequency peer: quai (-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.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „quinta“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „quinta“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for quinta
PropertyValue
Headwordquinta
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAdjective
IPA[…]
Letters6
Frequency rank#65,601
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „quinta“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).quintafällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „quai“ (#65,600), „quittierte“ (#65,602), „pünktliche“ (#65,599). Unter 216 „Q“-Lemmata liegt „quinta“ bei #65,601. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

quinta is uncommon German at frequency #65,601 among 216 “Q” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.

quinta doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is quinta, spelled Q-U-I-N-T-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nominativ Singular Femininum des Adjektivs quintus
  2. 2
    (quintā) Ablativ Singular Femininum des Adjektivs quintus
  3. 3
    Nominativ Plural Neutrum des Adjektivs quintus
  4. 4
    Akkusativ Plural Neutrum des Adjektivs quintus

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "quinta"?
"quinta" is spelled Q-U-I-N-T-A. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "quinta" mean?
As an adjective, "quinta" means: Nominativ Singular Femininum des Adjektivs quintus
How do you pronounce "quinta"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "quinta" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "quinta" come from?
"quinta" is a German word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "quinta", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Putten#65,598ragten#65,604ravens#65,609Regung#65,616

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list