quinta
"quinta" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“quinta” is uncommon English (frequency #50,174 among 288 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,174
- frequency rank, English
- 288
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - A country house in Madeira.
Corpus desk
Index EN-quinta · quinta · English
quinta · rank #50,174 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,174
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 288
- PHOTO-FINISH purveyor
Nearest frequency peer: purveyor (-2 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 “quinta”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- prolapse
prolapse
49,835 corpus weight
- Puebla
Puebla
49,832 corpus weight
- purveyor
purveyor
49,829 corpus weight
- quinta
quinta
49,827 corpus weight
- radii
radii
49,824 corpus weight
- Raikkonen
Raikkonen
49,823 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “quinta” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quinta |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,174 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “quinta” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
quinta is uncommon English at frequency #50,174 among 288 “Q” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A country house in Madeira.".
quinta doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Spanish quinta. The correct English form is quinta, spelled Q-U-I-N-T-A.
Definition
- 1A country house in Madeira.
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish quinta.
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 September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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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).
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.