qualité
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#636
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
qualité is aFrenchnoun. It means: Manière d’être, bonne ou mauvaise, grande ou petite, etc., de quelque chose ou de quelqu’un, état, caractéristique. Pronounced \ka.li.te\. It ranks #636 in French word frequency. Often confused with quite and quality.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | qualité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.li.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #636 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for qualité is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.li.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #636 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for qualité, with forms such as "qaulité", "qqualité", and "quailté". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "quite", "quality", "quantité", 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 qualité, spelled Q-U-A-L-I-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Manière d’être, bonne ou mauvaise, grande ou petite, etc., de quelque chose ou de quelqu’un, état, caractéristique.
- 2Ce qui fait le mérite de quelqu’un, disposition bonne ou mauvaise.
- 3Bonne qualité.
- 4Noblesse.
- 5Titres donnés en raison de la condition sociale, civile, politique.
- 6Habilité à exercer quelque droit.
- 7Habilité à exercer quelque droit.
- 8Niveau de finition ou de perfection d’exécution d’une action ou d’un produit.
- 9Aptitude d’un ensemble de caractéristiques intrinsèques à satisfaire les besoins exprimés ou potentiels des utilisateurs.
- 10Écart de valeur entre celle d’une tour et celle d’un cavalier ou d’un fou.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: qaulité,qqualité,quailté,qualite,qualitté,qualiét,quallité,qualtié,qulaité,uqalité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for qualité
Misspelling Variants of "qualité"
Frequency rank: #636 in French
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