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quickie

/ˈkwɪki/noun

quickie is spelled Q-U-I-C-K-I-E: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 38,863rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, quickie means “Something made or done swiftly” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of quickie is quickies.

How many letters and syllables are in quickie?

Letters7: Q-U-I-C-K-I-E
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 38,863rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is quickie?

Quickie appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 38,863rd 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).

How do you pronounce quickie?

  • /ˈkwɪki/

Quickie 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: En-au-quickie.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of quickie

  • quickies plural

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

What does quickie mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    colloquialSomething made or done swiftly.

  2. 2

    colloquialA brief sexual encounter.

  3. 3

    A fast bowler.

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

Quickie in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
GermanQuickie (something made or done swiftly), schnelle Nummer (brief sexual encounter)
Frenchpetite vite (brief sexual encounter)
Portugueserapidinha (brief sexual encounter)
Spanishkiki, quiqui, rapidín (brief sexual encounter)

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 quickie come from?

From quick + -ie.

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

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