quim
/kwɪm/
"quim" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“quim” is uncommon English (frequency #95,318 among 288 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,318
- frequency rank, English
- 288
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The female genitalia; the vulva.
Corpus desk
Index EN-quim · quim · English
quim · rank #95,318 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,318
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 288
- PHOTO-FINISH Raikes
Nearest frequency peer: Raikes (+3 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 “quim”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- pupillary
pupillary
4,691 corpus weight
- purp
purp
4,689 corpus weight
- Puth
Puth
4,688 corpus weight
- quim
quim
4,683 corpus weight
- Raikes
Raikes
4,680 corpus weight
- rapamycin
rapamycin
4,677 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “quim” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quim |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kwɪm/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #95,318 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “quim” in English
Rare enough to double-check
quim is uncommon English at frequency #95,318 among 288 “Q” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kwɪm/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for quim, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Uncertain; perhaps an alteration of queme. The English Dialect Dictionary has a citation of "quim and cosh" from 1723 which it glosses as "intimate and familiar". Compare also quaint, cunt. Derivation from Welsh cwm (“hollow”) is sometimes suggested, but th… The correct English form is quim, spelled Q-U-I-M.
Definition
- 1The female genitalia; the vulva.
- 2An extremely unpleasant or objectionable person.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quim appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
For one day, when amusing herself with this whim The carrot it snapped, and part stuck in her quim.
Ho! What do I here behold? Were you brushing the cobwebs off a few quims?
Etymology
Uncertain; perhaps an alteration of queme. The English Dialect Dictionary has a citation of "quim and cosh" from 1723 which it glosses as "intimate and familiar". Compare also quaint, cunt. Derivation from Welsh cwm (“hollow”) is sometimes suggested, but the OED notes that this is "unlikely on both semantic and phonological grounds".
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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