quintus
"quintus" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“quintus” is uncommon English (frequency #51,341 among 288 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,341
- frequency rank, English
- 288
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The fifth voice in addition to the superius, altus, tenor and bassus in a piece of vocal polyphony.
Corpus desk
Index EN-quintus · quintus · English
quintus · rank #51,341 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,341
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 288
- PHOTO-FINISH quinine
Nearest frequency peer: quinine (-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 “quintus”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- quays
quays
48,663 corpus weight
- queso
queso
48,662 corpus weight
- quinine
quinine
48,661 corpus weight
- quintus
quintus
48,660 corpus weight
- rapt
rapt
48,656 corpus weight
- rearguard
rearguard
48,654 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “quintus” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quintus |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,341 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “quintus” in English
Rare enough to double-check
quintus is uncommon English at frequency #51,341 among 288 “Q” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The fifth voice in addition to the superius, altus, tenor and bassus in a piece of vocal polyphony.".
Zero misspellings are on record for quintus in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Latin quīntus (“fifth”). Doublet of quint. The correct English form is quintus, spelled Q-U-I-N-T-U-S.
Definition
- 1The fifth voice in addition to the superius, altus, tenor and bassus in a piece of vocal polyphony.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin quīntus (“fifth”). Doublet of quint.
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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