quiso

/[ˈkiso]/ verb

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,364

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

quiso is aSpanishverb. It means: Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de querer. Pronounced [ˈkiso]. It ranks #2,364 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with quo and quizá.

Key facts for quiso
PropertyValue
Headwordquiso
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ˈkiso]
Letters5
Frequency rank#2,364
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of quiso in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for quiso is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkiso]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,364 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de querer.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for quiso, with forms such as "qiuso", "qquiso", and "quios". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "quo", "quizá", "quita", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is quiso, spelled Q-U-I-S-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de querer.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: qiuso,qquiso,quios,quisso,qusio,uqiso

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for quiso

Misspelling Variants of "quiso"

qiuso5qquiso6quios5quisso6qusio5uqiso5
Misspelling Variants of "quiso"

Frequency rank: #2,364 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "quiso"?
"quiso" is spelled Q-U-I-S-O. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈkiso].
What does "quiso" mean?
As a verb, "quiso" means: Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de querer.
What words are commonly confused with "quiso"?
"quiso" is commonly confused with "quo", "quizá", "quita". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "quiso"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "quiso" is [ˈkiso]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "quiso" come from?
"quiso" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Spanish words

Other entries that begin with the letter Q in our Spanish index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.