Which to use
“quoted” is a verb and “quotes” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #5,075
- “quoted” frequency rank
- #4,702
- “quotes” frequency rank
- 9777
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | quoted | quotes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | simple past and past participle of quote | plural of quote |
Letter map: quoted vs quotes
Shared letters muted; letters that set quoted and quotes apart highlighted. Shared run: 5. quoted and quotes follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Part-of-speech tell for quoted / quotes
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: quoted is averb and quotesanoun. On the page they differ by a single letter - d in “quoted” becomes s in “quotes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 9777, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
quoted is recorded at frequency rank #5,075, classified as averb, pronounced /ˈkwəʊtɪd/. quotes is at rank #4,702, tagged as anoun.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 9777, this pair ranks #495,653 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of quoted vs quotes
Shared letters: eoqtu. Private to "quoted": d. Private to "quotes": s.
"quoted" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC · "quotes" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
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Frequency check: "quoted" vs "quotes" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
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- Full dictionary entry for "quoted" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "quotes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #495,653 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "quoted" and "quotes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "quakes vs quotes". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #495,653 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.