quebec
noun
quebec is spelled Q-U-E-B-E-C. The wrong spelling people search most is qubec: about 180 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 45 of all searches for the word. Quebec is a noun meaning “Alternative letter-case form of Quebec from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet”.
How many letters and syllables are in quebec?
| Letters | 6: Q-U-E-B-E-C |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 9.3 times per million words; the 7,445th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, qubec, about 180 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell quebec?
Quebec is spelled Q-U-E-B-E-C. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 41 of the searches for quebec in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is quebec?
Quebec appears 9.3 times per million words in written English, the 7,445th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Quebec, the name.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce quebec?
Quebec 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).
What does quebec mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Alternative letter-case form of Quebec from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).