quote
[kʰwoʊt]noun, verb, particle
quote is spelled Q-U-O-T-E. The wrong spelling people search most is qoute: about 1,190 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 31 of all searches for the word. Quote is a noun meaning “A statement attributed to a person; a quotation”. The plural of quote is quotes.
How many letters and syllables are in quote?
| Letters | 5: Q-U-O-T-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 |
| In writing | 32 times per million words; the 2,941st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, qoute, about 1,190 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 quote?
Quote is spelled Q-U-O-T-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 31 of the searches for quote 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 quote?
Quote appears 32 times per million words in written English, the 2,941st 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 quote?
- /kwəʊt/
- UK [k(ʰ)wəʊt]
- US [kʰwoʊt]
Quote has one syllable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-quote.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with quote
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: cote.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with quote?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as quote.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: toque.
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 quote
- quotes plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- quoting participle, present
- quoted participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does quote mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A statement attributed to a person; a quotation.
She loved reading quotes of famous people.
- 2
A quotation mark.
- 3
A summary of work to be done with a set price; a quotation.
After going over the hefty quotes, the board decided it was cheaper to have the project executed by its own staff.
- 4
A price set and offered (by the potential seller) for a financial security or commodity; a quotation.
verb
- 1
To repeat (the exact words of a person).
The writer quoted the president's speech.
- 2
To prepare a summary of work to be done and set a price; to estimate.
Can you believe they quoted me $5,000?
- 3
To name the current price, notably of a financial security.
- 4
To indicate verbally or by equivalent means the start of a quotation.
- 5
archaicTo observe, to take account of.
particle
- 1
Used in speech to indicate the start of a quotation.
She told me she was, quote, "too hot for you."
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Quote in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | citation , guillemet , devis, cotation , citer , deviser |
| German | Zitat , Anführungszeichen , Angebot , zitieren , Preisangebot machen, anbieten |
| Portuguese | citação , aspa , orçamento , citar , orçar , cotar |
| Spanish | cita, citación, entrecomillado , comillas, comilla , presupuesto |
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 quote come from?
From Middle English quoten, coten (“to mark (a book) with chapter numbers or marginal references”), from Old French coter, from Medieval Latin quotāre (“to distinguish by numbers, number chapters”), itself from Latin quotus (“which, what number (in sequence)”), from quot (“how many”) and related to quis (“who”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).