quoth
/kwəʊθ/
"quoth" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“quoth” is uncommon English (frequency #86,671 among 2,880 “Q” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,671
- frequency rank, English
- 2,880
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - said
| 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) |
Where “quoth” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
quoth is uncommon English at frequency #86,671 among 2,880 “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
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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Using “quoth”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is Q-U-O-T-H - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /kwəʊθ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.