quit

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The English entry for quit is 4 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /kwɪt/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,805 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Released from obligation, penalty, etc; free, clear, or rid.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for quit, with forms such as "qiut", "qquit", and "quitt". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "quo", "quiz", "quite", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English quiten, quyten, from Anglo-Norman quitter, Old French quitter, from quitte (“acquitted, quit”), ultimately from Latin quietus, which itself derives from Proto-Indo-European *kʷyéh₁-ti-s, from *kʷyeh₁- (“to rest”). Doublet of coy, quite, … Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is quit, spelled Q-U-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.