quickens
/ˈkwɪk(ə)ns/
"quickens" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“quickens” is uncommon English (frequency #79,896 among 2,880 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,896
- frequency rank, English
- 2,880
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Synonym of couch grass (“a species of grass, Elymus repens”); also, the underground rhizomes of this, and sometimes other grasses.
Corpus desk
Index EN-quickens · quickens · English
quickens · rank #79,896 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,896
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,880
- PHOTO-FINISH quibbling
Nearest frequency peer: quibbling (-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 “quickens”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- quadrupole
quadrupole
20,108 corpus weight
- quibbling
quibbling
20,106 corpus weight
- quickens
quickens
20,105 corpus weight
- raad
raad
20,104 corpus weight
- Radhakrishn…
Radhakrishnan
20,103 corpus weight
- Ramesses
Ramesses
20,100 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “quickens” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quickens |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkwɪk(ə)ns/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #79,896 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “quickens” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
quickens is uncommon English at frequency #79,896 among 2,880 “Q” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈkwɪk(ə)ns/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonym of couch grass (“a species of grass, Elymus repens”); also, the underground rhizomes of this, and sometimes other grasses.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for quickens, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From quicken + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum, plurals of nouns, and the third-person singular indicative present tense of verbs). The correct English form is quickens, spelled Q-U-I-C-K-E-N-S.
Definition
- 1Synonym of couch grass (“a species of grass, Elymus repens”); also, the underground rhizomes of this, and sometimes other grasses.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how quickens appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quickens are not confined to one species of grass.
Etymology
From quicken + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum, plurals of nouns, and the third-person singular indicative present tense of verbs).
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 May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.