quince
/kwɪns/
"quince" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“quince” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #34,657. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,657
- frequency rank, English
- 288
- “Q” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The pear-shaped fruit of a small tree of the rose family, Cydonia oblonga.
Corpus desk
Index EN-quince · quince · English
quince · rank #34,657 · 8 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,657
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 288
- PHOTO-FINISH quicksilver
Nearest frequency peer: quicksilver (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “quince”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Qantas
Qantas
65,347 corpus weight
- quicken
quicken
65,346 corpus weight
- quicksilver
quicksilver
65,345 corpus weight
- quince
quince
65,344 corpus weight
- racehorse
racehorse
65,343 corpus weight
- raked
raked
65,341 corpus weight
What this shows “quince” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quince |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kwɪns/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #34,657 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “quince”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around quince (IPA /kwɪns/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,657 among 288 “Q” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for quince, with forms such as "qiunce", "qquince", and "quicne". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "quite", "Quinn", "quint", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English quynce, coince, a variant of coins, coin (“quince”), from Old French cooing (modern coing), from Late Latin cotōneum, from Latin mālum cotōneum, a variant of mālum Cydonium (“Cydonian apple”), translating Ancient Greek μηλοκυδώνιον (mēlo… The correct English form is quince, spelled Q-U-I-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1The pear-shaped fruit of a small tree of the rose family, Cydonia oblonga.
- 2The deciduous tree bearing such fruit, native to Asia.
- 3A soft yellow colour, like that of a quince.
Etymology
From Middle English quynce, coince, a variant of coins, coin (“quince”), from Old French cooing (modern coing), from Late Latin cotōneum, from Latin mālum cotōneum, a variant of mālum Cydonium (“Cydonian apple”), translating Ancient Greek μηλοκυδώνιον (mēlokudṓnion).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- qiunce
- qquince
- quicne
- quincce
- quinec
- quinnce
- qunice
- uqince
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of quince - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).