quality
/ˈkwɒl.ɪ.ti/
"quality" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“quality” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #816. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #816
- frequency rank, English
- 288
- “Q” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Level of excellence.
Corpus desk
Index EN-quality · quality · English
quality · rank #816 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #816
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 288
- PHOTO-FINISH property
Nearest frequency peer: property (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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 “quality”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- natural
natural
99,188 corpus weight
- October
October
99,187 corpus weight
- property
property
99,186 corpus weight
- quality
quality
99,185 corpus weight
- send
send
99,184 corpus weight
- style
style
99,183 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “quality” sits against the nearest ranked English 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 | quality |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkwɒl.ɪ.ti/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #816 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “quality” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around quality (IPA /ˈkwɒl.ɪ.ti/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #816 among 288 “Q” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for quality, with forms such as "qaulity", "qquality", and "quailty". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "quantity", "qualify", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English qualite, from Old French qualité, from Latin quālitās, quālitātem, from quālis (“of what kind”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷo- (“who, how”). Cicero coined qualitas as a calque to translate the Ancient Greek word ποιότης (poiótēs, “quali… The correct English form is quality, spelled Q-U-A-L-I-T-Y.
Definition
- 1Level of excellence.
- 2Something that differentiates a thing or person.
- 3Position; status; rank.
- 4High social position. (See also the quality.)
- 5The degree to which a man-made object or system is free from faults and flaws, as opposed to scope of functions or quantity of items.
- 6In a two-phase liquid–vapor mixture, the ratio of the mass of vapor present to the total mass of the mixture.
- 7The third step in OPQRST where the responder investigates what the NOI/MOI feels like.
- 8A newspaper with relatively serious, high-quality content.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quality appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
This school is well-known for having teachers of high quality.
Quality of life is usually determined by health, education, and income.
Etymology
From Middle English qualite, from Old French qualité, from Latin quālitās, quālitātem, from quālis (“of what kind”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷo- (“who, how”). Cicero coined qualitas as a calque to translate the Ancient Greek word ποιότης (poiótēs, “quality”), coined by Plato from ποῖος (poîos, “of what nature, of what kind”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- qaulity
- qquality
- quailty
- qualitty
- qualityy
- qualiyt
- quallity
- qualtiy
- qulaity
- uqality
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of quality - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "quality", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "quality" maps to 2 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "quantity". View pair
- 10 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #816 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more English words in the "Q" letter cohort. Q–Z browse
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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.