quae
/ˈkʷaɪ/
The verdict
“quae” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #84,280 among 364 “Q” headwords), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,280
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 364
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del nominativo plural femenino de quis₁.
Corpus desk
Index ES-quae · quae · Spanish
quae · rank #84,280 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,280
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 364
- PHOTO-FINISH querellantes
Nearest frequency peer: querellantes (+1 rank slots)
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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “quae”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- purificador…
purificadores
15,726 corpus weight
- pósito
pósito
15,723 corpus weight
- quae
quae
15,721 corpus weight
- querellantes
querellantes
15,720 corpus weight
- radicalizado
radicalizado
15,717 corpus weight
- raga
raga
15,716 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “quae” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quae |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | /ˈkʷaɪ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #84,280 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “quae” en español
Rare enough to double-check
quae is uncommon Spanish at frequency #84,280 among 364 “Q” headwords, classed as apronoun, transcribed /ˈkʷaɪ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
quae doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is quae, spelled Q-U-A-E.
Definition
- 1Forma del nominativo plural femenino de quis₁.
- 2Forma del nominativo plural neutro de quis₁.
- 3Forma del acusativo plural neutro de quis₁.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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