qualité de l’air
\ka.li.te də l‿ɛʁ\
The verdict
“qualité de l’air” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - État de l’air ambiant caractérisé par la présence et la concentration de polluants atmosphériques, évalué selon des critères sanitaires ou environnementaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-qualite-de-l-air · qualité de l’air · French
qualité de l’air · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "Q" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | qualité de l’air |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.li.te də l‿ɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “qualité de l’air” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
qualité de l’air is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.li.te də l‿ɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "État de l’air ambiant caractérisé par la présence et la concentration de polluants atmosphériques, évalué selon des critères sanitaires ou environnementaux.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for qualité de l’air, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is qualité de l’air, spelled Q-U-A-L-I-T-É- -D-E- -L-’-A-I-R.
Definition
- 1État de l’air ambiant caractérisé par la présence et la concentration de polluants atmosphériques, évalué selon des critères sanitaires ou environnementaux.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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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.