quesadilla
/ˌkeɪ̯səˈdiː(l)jə/
"quesadilla" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“quesadilla” is uncommon English (frequency #64,644 among 288 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,644
- frequency rank, English
- 288
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A Mexican dish made by filling a tortilla with cheese and sometimes other ingredients and then cooking it until the cheese is melted.
Corpus desk
Index EN-quesadilla · quesadilla · English
quesadilla · rank #64,644 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,644
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 288
- PHOTO-FINISH Qiao
Nearest frequency peer: Qiao (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “quesadilla”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Ptolemaic
Ptolemaic
35,364 corpus weight
- pummel
pummel
35,363 corpus weight
- pyroclastic
pyroclastic
35,360 corpus weight
- Qiao
Qiao
35,358 corpus weight
- quesadilla
quesadilla
35,357 corpus weight
- quixotic
quixotic
35,356 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “quesadilla” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quesadilla |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌkeɪ̯səˈdiː(l)jə/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #64,644 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “quesadilla” in English
Rare enough to double-check
quesadilla is uncommon English at frequency #64,644 among 288 “Q” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌkeɪ̯səˈdiː(l)jə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
quesadilla doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Spanish quesadilla. [Alt: Slices of a quesadilla piled on top of one another] The correct English form is quesadilla, spelled Q-U-E-S-A-D-I-L-L-A.
Definition
- 1A Mexican dish made by filling a tortilla with cheese and sometimes other ingredients and then cooking it until the cheese is melted.
- 2A Salvadoran pan dulce made with rice flour and queso duro blanco and topped with sesame seeds.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how quesadilla appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In the Salvadoran bakery, the quesadilla is king, whether cut into squares from a cake tray or baked into discus-sized round coffee cakes.
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish quesadilla. [Alt: Slices of a quesadilla piled on top of one another]
This word in other languages
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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