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quasi

UK /ˈkweɪzaɪ/adjective

quasi is an adjective meaning “Resembling or having a likeness to the named thing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled Q-U-A-S-I and has 2 syllables, and it appears 3.1 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does quasi mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Resembling or having a likeness to the named thing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce quasi?

  • UK /ˈkweɪzaɪ/
  • UK /ˈkweɪsaɪ/
  • UK /ˈkwɑːzi/

Quasi has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-quasi.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-quasi2.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Aadenboy-quasi-.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

How common is quasi?

Quasi appears 3.1 times per million words in written English, the 15,146th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Quasi in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Germanquasi (showing likeness)
Spanishcuasi (showing likeness), cuasi- (almost)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does quasi come from?

Learned borrowing from Latin quasi (“as if”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).