quais

\ke\

/\ke\/ noun

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The verdict

“quais” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,217. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#10,217
frequency rank, French
352
“Q” headwords
5
tracked misspellings
17
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de quai.

Corpus desk

Index FR-quais · quais · French

quais · rank #10,217 · 5 variants · 17 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #10,217
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
  • VAR-MID 5 variants
  • BOOK-MID 352
  • PHOTO-FINISH puissantes

Nearest frequency peer: puissantes (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « quais »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « quais » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

quais vs qui
60% similar
quais vs quoi
60% similar
quais vs quid
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for quais
PropertyValue
Headwordquais
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ke\
Letters5
Frequency rank#10,217
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs17
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « quais »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).quaisse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « puissantes » (#10,216), « rapportent » (#10,218), « RDC » (#10,219). Parmi 352 lemmes en « Q », « quais » est au #10,217. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 5 spelling variants around quais (IPA \ke\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,217 among 352 “Q” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de quai.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for quais, with forms such as "qauis", "qquais", and "quaiss". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "qui", "quoi", "quid", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is quais, spelled Q-U-A-I-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de quai.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how quais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. À toute allure les autobus, les omnibus et les charrettes de commissionnaires voituraient malles et valises vers la gare ; sur les quais envahis, l’exode des hiverneurs d’élite se heurtait à la bousculade des voyageurs de toute espèce.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • qauis
  • qquais
  • quaiss
  • quias
  • uqais

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of quais - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

qauis2qquais1quaiss1quias2uqais2
Edit distance from "quais"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "quais"?
"quais" is spelled Q-U-A-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ke\.
What does "quais" mean?
As a noun, "quais" means: Pluriel de quai.
What words are commonly confused with "quais"?
"quais" is commonly confused with "qui", "quoi", "quid". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "quais"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "quais" is \ke\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "quais" come from?
"quais" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "quais", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

patte#10,206Pablo#10,204metro#10,194songe#10,241

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).

pipi5 variantsmanu5 variantstige5 variantsvalu5 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list