qual
\kwal\
The verdict
“qual” is uncommon French (frequency #77,839 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,839
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Frai des astéries ou étoiles de mer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-qual · qual · French
qual · rank #77,839 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,839
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH quadrants
Nearest frequency peer: quadrants (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « qual »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pépiniériste
pépiniériste
22,165 corpus weight
- péteux
péteux
22,164 corpus weight
- quadrants
quadrants
22,163 corpus weight
- qual
qual
22,162 corpus weight
- quinconce
quinconce
22,161 corpus weight
- rabattue
rabattue
22,160 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « qual » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | qual |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kwal\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #77,839 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « qual » en français
Rare enough to double-check
qual is uncommon French at frequency #77,839 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kwal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Frai des astéries ou étoiles de mer.".
qual has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is qual, spelled Q-U-A-L.
Definition
- 1Frai des astéries ou étoiles de mer.
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.
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