quiche
[ˈkit͡ʃe]
The verdict
“quiche” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #67,221 among 364 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,221
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 364
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pastel de masa quebrada y relleno salado ligado con huevo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-quiche · quiche · Spanish
quiche · rank #67,221 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,221
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 364
- PHOTO-FINISH quintaesencia
Nearest frequency peer: quintaesencia (+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 “quiche”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- provocativas
provocativas
32,785 corpus weight
- pugnas
pugnas
32,783 corpus weight
- pérgola
pérgola
32,782 corpus weight
- quiche
quiche
32,780 corpus weight
- quintaesenc…
quintaesencia
32,779 corpus weight
- quiteño
quiteño
32,778 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “quiche” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quiche |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkit͡ʃe] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #67,221 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “quiche” en español
Rare enough to double-check
quiche is uncommon Spanish at frequency #67,221 among 364 “Q” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈkit͡ʃe]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pastel de masa quebrada y relleno salado ligado con huevo.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for quiche, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is quiche, spelled Q-U-I-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Pastel de masa quebrada y relleno salado ligado con huevo.
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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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