quiz

/[ˈkwis]/ noun

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#51,177

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

quiz is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cuestionario, autoevaluación o acertijo breve y conciso que se usa para poner a prueba el conocimiento de una persona en una determinada materia. Pronounced [ˈkwis].

Key facts for quiz
PropertyValue
Headwordquiz
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈkwis]
Letters4
Frequency rank#51,177
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for quiz is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkwis]. Corpus data places it at rank #51,177 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Cuestionario, autoevaluación o acertijo breve y conciso que se usa para poner a prueba el conocimiento de una persona en una determinada materia.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for quiz in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 quiz, spelled Q-U-I-Z, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Cuestionario, autoevaluación o acertijo breve y conciso que se usa para poner a prueba el conocimiento de una persona en una determinada materia.

Synonyms

Frequency rank: #51,177 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "quiz"?
"quiz" is spelled Q-U-I-Z. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈkwis].
What does "quiz" mean?
As a noun, "quiz" means: Cuestionario, autoevaluación o acertijo breve y conciso que se usa para poner a prueba el conocimiento de una persona en una determinada materia.
How do you pronounce "quiz"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "quiz" is [ˈkwis]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "quiz" come from?
"quiz" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.