quitter
/ˈkwɪ.tə/
"quitter" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“quitter” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #49,577. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,577
- frequency rank, English
- 288
- “Q” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Matter flowing from a wound or sore; pus.
Corpus desk
Index EN-quitter · quitter · English
quitter · rank #49,577 · 8 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,577
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 288
- PHOTO-FINISH Quayle
Nearest frequency peer: Quayle (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “quitter”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- puritanical
puritanical
50,429 corpus weight
- pyrite
pyrite
50,427 corpus weight
- Quayle
Quayle
50,425 corpus weight
- quitter
quitter
50,424 corpus weight
- rafter
rafter
50,422 corpus weight
- rationalist
rationalist
50,420 corpus weight
What this shows “quitter” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quitter |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkwɪ.tə/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #49,577 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “quitter”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around quitter (IPA /ˈkwɪ.tə/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,577 among 288 “Q” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for quitter, with forms such as "qiutter", "qquitter", and "quiter". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "quiver", "quite", "quarter", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English quitter, from Anglo-Norman quiture, quyture et al., specialised use of quiture (“burn mark, burning”), from the participle stem of cuire (“to cook”), or from Latin coctura (“cooking”). The correct English form is quitter, spelled Q-U-I-T-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Matter flowing from a wound or sore; pus.
- 2Alternative spelling of quittor (“fistulous wound at the top of a horse's foot”).
- 3Scoria of tin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how quitter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Therfor Sathan [...] smoot Joob with a ful wickid botche fro the sole of the foot til to his top; which Joob schauyde the quytere with a schelle, and sat in the dunghil.
Etymology
From Middle English quitter, from Anglo-Norman quiture, quyture et al., specialised use of quiture (“burn mark, burning”), from the participle stem of cuire (“to cook”), or from Latin coctura (“cooking”).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- qiutter
- qquitter
- quiter
- quitetr
- quitterr
- quittre
- qutiter
- uqitter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of quitter - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).