quarantine
/ˈkwɔɹ.ən.tin/
"quarantine" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“quarantine” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #12,306. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,306
- frequency rank, English
- 288
- “Q” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A period of 40 days, particularly
Corpus desk
Index EN-quarantine · quarantine · English
quarantine · rank #12,306 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,306
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 288
- PHOTO-FINISH pup
Nearest frequency peer: pup (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “quarantine”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- polymer
polymer
87,700 corpus weight
- precipitati…
precipitation
87,699 corpus weight
- pup
pup
87,696 corpus weight
- quarantine
quarantine
87,695 corpus weight
- query
query
87,694 corpus weight
- RAF
RAF
87,693 corpus weight
What this shows “quarantine” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quarantine |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkwɔɹ.ən.tin/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #12,306 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “quarantine”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around quarantine (IPA /ˈkwɔɹ.ən.tin/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,306 among 288 “Q” headwords. Wiktionary lists 10 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for quarantine, with forms such as "qaurantine", "qquarantine", and "quaarntine". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Medieval Latin quarentena and quarentīna (“40-day period, Lent”) via Middle English quarentine, Norman quarenteine, French quarenteine, and Italian quarantina, via proposed Late Latin *quaranta + -ēna (forming distributive adjectives), from Latin quadr… The correct English form is quarantine, spelled Q-U-A-R-A-N-T-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1A period of 40 days, particularly
- 2A period of 40 days, particularly
- 3A period of 40 days, particularly
- 4A period of 40 days, particularly
- 5A period, instance, or state of isolation from the general public or from native livestock and flora enacted to prevent the spread of any contagious disease.
- 6A similar period, instance, or state of rigidly enforced or self-enforced detention or isolation.
- 7A place where such isolation is enforced, a lazaret.
- 8A blockade of trade, suspension of diplomatic relations, or other action whereby one country seeks to isolate another.
- 9An isolation of one program, drive, computer, etc. from the rest of a computer network to limit the damage from a bug, computer virus, etc.
- 10The program, drive, computer, etc. thus isolated.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quarantine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Now the Question seems to lye thus, where lay the Seeds of the Infection all this while? How came it to stop so long, and not stop any longer? Either the Distemper did not come immediately by Contagion from Body to Body, or if it did, then a Body may be capable to continue infected, without the Disease discovering itself, many Days, nay Weeks together, ev…
Querentyne is where a man dyeth seisyd of a maner place and other landis where of the wyfe ought to be indowed, than the woman shall hold the maner place by .xl. days within which tyme her dower shalbe to her assyned.
Etymology
From Medieval Latin quarentena and quarentīna (“40-day period, Lent”) via Middle English quarentine, Norman quarenteine, French quarenteine, and Italian quarantina, via proposed Late Latin *quaranta + -ēna (forming distributive adjectives), from Latin quadrāgintā (“four tens, 40”). In reference to French politics, calque of French quarantaine after edicts of Louis IX. In reference to a severance of political relations, popularized by the Roosevelt administration's 1937 approach to the Axis powers and the later Kennedy administration's 1962 approach to Cuba during the missile crisis.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- qaurantine
- qquarantine
- quaarntine
- quaranitne
- quaranntine
- quarantien
- quarantinne
- quarantnie
- quaranttine
- quaratnine
- quarnatine
- quarrantine
- quraantine
- uqarantine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of quarantine - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
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