quite
/kwaɪ̯t/adverb, interjection, noun
quite is spelled Q-U-I-T-E. The wrong spelling people search most is qutie: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 345 of all searches for the word. Quite is an adverb meaning “With verbs, especially past participles”.
How many letters and syllables are in quite?
| Letters | 5: Q-U-I-T-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 195 times per million words; the 516th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, qutie, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search | |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell quite?
Quite is spelled Q-U-I-T-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 343 of the searches for quite in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is quite?
Quite appears 195 times per million words in written English, the 516th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce quite?
- US /kwaɪ̯t/
- US [ˈkʰw̥aɪ̯t]
As a noun (“A series of passes made with the cape to distract the bull”): /ˈkiːteɪ/.
Quite has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-quite.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-quite_(bull).wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with quite
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with quite?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as quite from its last stressed vowel (/aɪt/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: quiet.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of quite
- quites plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does quite mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adverb
- 1
With verbs, especially past participles.
- 2
With prepositional phrases and spatial adverbs.
- 3
With predicative adjectives.
- 4
With attributive adjectives, following an (especially indefinite) article; chiefly as expressing contrast, difference etc.
- 5
Preceding nouns introduced by the indefinite article. Chiefly in negative constructions.
- 6
With adverbs of manner.
- 7
Coming before the indefinite article and an attributive adjective. (Now largely merged with moderative senses, below.)
- 8
With plain adjectives, past participles, and adverbs.
interjection
- 1
UKIndicates agreement; exactly so.
“That's a rather ugly colour for a house, don't you think?” – “Quite.”
noun
- 1
A series of passes made with the cape to distract the bull.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Quite in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | tout à fait, complètement , vraiment , assez |
| German | ganz, völlig, ganz und gar, höchst , recht, geradezu |
| Portuguese | totalmente, completamente , realmente , razoavelmente |
| Spanish | bastante, asaz, menudo , tal como (y) |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does quite come from?
A development of quit, influence by Anglo-Norman quite. Doublet of coy, quit, quiet, and quietus. For an analogous semantic development from the same root, compare Armenian շատ (šat).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).