quintile
"quintile" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“quintile” is uncommon English (frequency #75,330 among 288 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,330
- frequency rank, English
- 288
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any of the quantiles which divide an ordered sample population into five equally numerous subsets.
Corpus desk
Index EN-quintile · quintile · English
quintile · rank #75,330 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,330
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 288
- PHOTO-FINISH quickstep
Nearest frequency peer: quickstep (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “quintile”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- puzzler
puzzler
24,675 corpus weight
- quadra
quadra
24,674 corpus weight
- quickstep
quickstep
24,672 corpus weight
- quintile
quintile
24,671 corpus weight
- radioisotope
radioisotope
24,669 corpus weight
- ragweed
ragweed
24,667 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “quintile” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quintile |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,330 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “quintile” in English
Rare enough to double-check
quintile is uncommon English at frequency #75,330 among 288 “Q” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for quintile, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From quint- + -ile. The correct English form is quintile, spelled Q-U-I-N-T-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1Any of the quantiles which divide an ordered sample population into five equally numerous subsets.
- 2A subset thus obtained.
- 3An aspect of planets that are distant from each other by one fifth of a zodiac (72°)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quintile appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Effectively no household making less than $28,000 will pay federal income tax – usually about 15% of the bottom income quintile has some tax liability.
“It’s well known that the lowest income consumer is really struggling with inflation, but from a purely economic standpoint, it is the higher quintiles of earners that do the most spending,” Nanette Abuhoff Jacobson, global investment strategist at Hartford Funds, told CNN.
Etymology
From quint- + -ile.
Synonyms
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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