être quitte

/\ɛtʁ kit\/ verb

Letters

11 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

être quitte is aFrenchverb. It means: Ne plus rien se devoir entre deux ou plus de deux personnes. Pronounced \ɛtʁ kit\.

Key facts for être quitte
PropertyValue
Headwordêtre quitte
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɛtʁ kit\
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

être quitte is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for être quitte is 11 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛtʁ kit\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Ne plus rien se devoir entre deux ou plus de deux personnes.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for être quitte in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French 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 French form is être quitte, spelled Ê-T-R-E- -Q-U-I-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ne plus rien se devoir entre deux ou plus de deux personnes.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "être quitte"?
"être quitte" is spelled Ê-T-R-E- -Q-U-I-T-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛtʁ kit\.
What does "être quitte" mean?
As a verb, "être quitte" means: Ne plus rien se devoir entre deux ou plus de deux personnes.
How do you pronounce "être quitte"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "être quitte" is \ɛtʁ kit\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "être quitte" come from?
"être quitte" is a French 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.