QI
\ky i\
The verdict
“QI” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,565) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,565
- frequency rank, French
- 11,618
- “Q” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Abréviation de quotient intellectuel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-qi · QI · French
QI · rank #10,565 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,565
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 11,618
- PHOTO-FINISH pénétration
Nearest frequency peer: pénétration (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “QI”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- préparés
préparés
89,439 corpus weight
- prétendent
prétendent
89,438 corpus weight
- pénétration
pénétration
89,437 corpus weight
- QI
QI
89,436 corpus weight
- rassurant
rassurant
89,435 corpus weight
- recevra
recevra
89,434 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “QI” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | QI |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ky i\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #10,565 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “QI” sits in French frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for QI is neighbouring look-alikes ("Qs", "que", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ky i\. Frequency #10,565 among 11,618 “Q” headwords. Gloss: "Abréviation de quotient intellectuel.".
QI doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Qs", "que", "qui", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is QI, spelled Q-I.
Definition
- 1Abréviation de quotient intellectuel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how QI appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une fois de plus, on bée d’admiration devant le QI des experts militaires.
This word in other languages
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.