quoth
/kwəʊθ/
"quoth" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“quoth” is uncommon English (frequency #86,671 among 288 “Q” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,671
- frequency rank, English
- 288
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - said
Corpus desk
Index EN-quoth · quoth · English
quoth · rank #86,671 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,671
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 288
- PHOTO-FINISH Queensferry
Nearest frequency peer: Queensferry (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “quoth”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- PVV
PVV
13,334 corpus weight
- Qamar
Qamar
13,333 corpus weight
- Queensferry
Queensferry
13,331 corpus weight
- quoth
quoth
13,330 corpus weight
- raffia
raffia
13,327 corpus weight
- Ramanujan
Ramanujan
13,325 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “quoth” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quoth |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /kwəʊθ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #86,671 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “quoth” in English
Rare enough to double-check
quoth is uncommon English at frequency #86,671 among 288 “Q” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /kwəʊθ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "said".
quoth doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English quoth, quath, from Old English cwæþ (first and third person past indicative of cweþan (“to say, speak to, address, exhort, admonish”)), from Proto-Germanic *kwaþ (first and third person past indicative of Proto-Germanic *kweþaną (“to say… The correct English form is quoth, spelled Q-U-O-T-H.
Definition
- 1said
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quoth appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore! / Quoth the raven, "Nevermore."
“Pull, if ye never pull’d before; / Good ringers, pull your best,” quoth he.
Etymology
From Middle English quoth, quath, from Old English cwæþ (first and third person past indicative of cweþan (“to say, speak to, address, exhort, admonish”)), from Proto-Germanic *kwaþ (first and third person past indicative of Proto-Germanic *kweþaną (“to say”)). Unrelated to quote.
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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