Que or queue?
que is a noun meaning “Alternative form of queue”; queue is a noun meaning “A line of people, vehicles or other objects, usually one to be dealt with in…”. They sound the same (/ˈkjuː/). In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) que is about as common as queue.
What is the difference between que and queue?
| que | queue | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun | noun, verb |
| Meaning | CommonwealthIrelandUKA line of people, vehicles or other objects, usually one to be dealt with in sequence (i.e., the one at the front end is dealt with first, the one behind is… A waiting list or other means of organizing people or objects into a first-come-first-served order To put oneself or itself at the end of a waiting line | |
| Example | Although the blue haze you see rising from a Western skyline is often that of a barbecue pit, the quest for 'que is one that's been… | A large number of loyal officials, rather than shave the front part of the head and wear the Manchu queue, voluntarily shaved the whole… |
| Forms | ques 'ques | queues |
| Pronunciation | /ˈkjuː/ | /kjuː/ /kjʉw/ /kju/ |
| In writing | 6.9 times per million words | 6.0 times per million words |
Sources: que and queue in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of que and queue
que
- 1
Alternative form of queue
- 2
USinformalClipping of barbeque
Although the blue haze you see rising from a Western skyline is often that of a barbecue pit, the quest for 'que is one that's been undertaken in the East as well as the West. In…
queue
- 1
CommonwealthIrelandUKA line of people, vehicles or other objects, usually one to be dealt with in sequence (i.e., the one at the front end is dealt with first, the one behind is dealt with next, and so on), and which…
- 2
To put oneself or itself at the end of a waiting line
- 3
A waiting list or other means of organizing people or objects into a first-come-first-served order
- 4
To arrange themselves into a physical waiting queue
- 5
A data structure in which objects are added to one end, called the tail, and removed from the other, called the head (in the case of a FIFO queue). The term can also refer to a LIFO queue or stack…
- 6
To add to a queue data structure
- 7
An animal's tail
- 8
To fasten the hair into a queue
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, que or queue?
que appears 6.9 times per million words; queue 6.0 times per million words.
que 6.9 times per million wordsqueue 6.0 times per million words
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How many people search que vs queue?
“que vs queue” is searched about 5,400 times a month on Google and 260 on Bing in the United States. Google counts close variants of a query together (“queue vs que”, “que or queue”).
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