Quixote
/ˈkwɪk.sət/noun
Quixote is a noun meaning “One resembling Don Quixote; someone who is chivalrous but idealist” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled Q-U-I-X-O-T-E and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 1 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Quixote is Quixotes.
What does Quixote mean?
noun
- 1
One resembling Don Quixote; someone who is chivalrous but idealist.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce Quixote?
- UK /ˈkwɪk.sət/
- UK /ˈkwɪk.səʊt/
- UK /kɪˈhəʊ.ti/
Quixote has 3 syllables (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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Sumxr-Quixote1.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Sumxr-Quixote2.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of Quixote
- Quixotes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Quixote?
Quixote appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 31,549th 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).
Where does Quixote come from?
After Don Quixote.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).