quai
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,609
in French word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
17
similar word pairs
quai is aFrenchnoun. It means: Levée ordinairement revêtue de pierres de taille et faite le long d’une rivière ou d’un canal, pour rendre le chemin praticable et pour empêcher le débordement de l’eau. Pronounced \kɛ\. It ranks #4,609 in French word frequency. Often confused with que and qui.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quai |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɛ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #4,609 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for quai is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,609 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for quai, with forms such as "qaui", "qquai", and "quia". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "que", "qui", "quoi", 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 French form is quai, spelled Q-U-A-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Levée ordinairement revêtue de pierres de taille et faite le long d’une rivière ou d’un canal, pour rendre le chemin praticable et pour empêcher le débordement de l’eau.
- 2Rivage d’un port de mer, qui sert pour le chargement et le déchargement des marchandises.
- 3Trottoir d’embarquement dans une gare de chemin de fer.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: qaui,qquai,quia,uqai
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for quai
Misspelling Variants of "quai"
Frequency rank: #4,609 in French
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Nearby French words
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