quem
/ˈkʷem/
The verdict
“quem” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #59,556 among 364 “Q” headwords), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,556
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 364
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del acusativo masculino singular de quī₁.
Corpus desk
Index ES-quem · quem · Spanish
quem · rank #59,556 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,556
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 364
- PHOTO-FINISH Quepan
Nearest frequency peer: Quepan (+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 “quem”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- pusiéramos
pusiéramos
40,449 corpus weight
- quedaríamos
quedaríamos
40,447 corpus weight
- quem
quem
40,445 corpus weight
- Quepan
Quepan
40,444 corpus weight
- querríamos
querríamos
40,442 corpus weight
- quística
quística
40,441 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “quem” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quem |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | /ˈkʷem/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #59,556 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “quem” en español
Rare enough to double-check
quem is uncommon Spanish at frequency #59,556 among 364 “Q” headwords, classed as apronoun, transcribed /ˈkʷem/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for quem, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is quem, spelled Q-U-E-M.
Definition
- 1Forma del acusativo masculino singular de quī₁.
- 2Forma del acusativo masculino singular de quis₁.
- 3Forma del acusativo femenino singular de quis₁.
- 4Forma del acusativo masculino singular de quis₂.
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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