qualité

\ka.li.te\

/\ka.li.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“qualité” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #636. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#636
frequency rank, French
352
“Q” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Manière d’être, bonne ou mauvaise, grande ou petite, etc., de quelque chose ou de quelqu’un, état, caractéristique.

Corpus desk

Index FR-qualite · qualité · French

qualité · rank #636 · 10 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-CORE #636
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 352
  • PHOTO-FINISH politiques

Nearest frequency peer: politiques (-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 “qualité”

Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)

corpus weight

What this shows Bars show where “qualité” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 2, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

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

qualité vs quite
57% similar
qualité vs quality
86% similar
qualité vs quantité
75% similar

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

Key facts for qualité
PropertyValue
Headwordqualité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ka.li.te\
Letters7
Frequency rank#636
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “qualité” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). qualité lands here:

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

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around qualité (IPA \ka.li.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #636 among 352 “Q” headwords. Wiktionary lists 10 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for qualité, with forms such as "qaulité", "qqualité", and "quailté". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "quite", "quality", "quantité", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

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. The correct French form is qualité, spelled Q-U-A-L-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Manière d’être, bonne ou mauvaise, grande ou petite, etc., de quelque chose ou de quelqu’un, état, caractéristique.
  2. 2
    Ce qui fait le mérite de quelqu’un, disposition bonne ou mauvaise.
  3. 3
    Bonne qualité.
  4. 4
    Noblesse.
  5. 5
    Titres donnés en raison de la condition sociale, civile, politique.
  6. 6
    Habilité à exercer quelque droit.
  7. 7
    Habilité à exercer quelque droit.
  8. 8
    Niveau de finition ou de perfection d’exécution d’une action ou d’un produit.
  9. 9
    Aptitude d’un ensemble de caractéristiques intrinsèques à satisfaire les besoins exprimés ou potentiels des utilisateurs.
  10. 10
    Écart de valeur entre celle d’une tour et celle d’un cavalier ou d’un fou.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Bonté, petitesse, blancheur, noirceur, beauté, laideur sont des qualités.
  2. La qualité de l’eau, du vin.

Synonyms

caractéristiqueaptitudeclassepropriété

Antonyms

défautnon-qualité

This word in other languages

quality(English)calidad(Español)Eigenschaft(Deutsch)predicado(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • qaulité
  • qqualité
  • quailté
  • qualite
  • qualitté
  • qualiét
  • quallité
  • qualtié
  • qulaité
  • uqalité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

qaulité2qqualité1quailté2qualite1qualitté1qualiét2quallité1qualtié2
Edit distance from "qualité"

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 September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "qualité"?
"qualité" is spelled Q-U-A-L-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.li.te\.
What does "qualité" mean?
As a noun, "qualité" means: Manière d’être, bonne ou mauvaise, grande ou petite, etc., de quelque chose ou de quelqu’un, état, caractéristique.
What words are commonly confused with "qualité"?
"qualité" is commonly confused with "quite", "quality", "quantité". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "qualité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "qualité" is \ka.li.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "qualité" come from?
"qualité" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

travaux#641appelle#643justice#628changer#645

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

meilleure10 variantsbonjour10 variantspartout10 variantsseconde10 variants
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.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list