quant

/\kɑ̃t\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#812

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

14

similar word pairs

quant is aFrenchnoun. It means: Désignation de l’état caractérisé par différentes propriétés identiques pour un article donné stocké à un emplacement donné. Pronounced \kɑ̃t\. It ranks #812 in French word frequency. Often confused with quot and quasi.

Key facts for quant
PropertyValue
Headwordquant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɑ̃t\
Letters5
Frequency rank#812
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs14
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of quant in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for quant is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɑ̃t\. Corpus data places it at rank #812 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Désignation de l’état caractérisé par différentes propriétés identiques pour un article donné stocké à un emplacement donné.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for quant, with forms such as "qaunt", "qquant", and "quannt". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "quot", "quasi", "quart", 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 quant, spelled Q-U-A-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Désignation de l’état caractérisé par différentes propriétés identiques pour un article donné stocké à un emplacement donné.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: qaunt,qquant,quannt,quantt,quatn,qunat,uqant

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for quant

Misspelling Variants of "quant"

qaunt5qquant6quannt6quantt6quatn5qunat5uqant5
Misspelling Variants of "quant"

Frequency rank: #812 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "quant"?
"quant" is spelled Q-U-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \kɑ̃t\.
What does "quant" mean?
As a noun, "quant" means: Désignation de l’état caractérisé par différentes propriétés identiques pour un article donné stocké à un emplacement donné.
What words are commonly confused with "quant"?
"quant" is commonly confused with "quot", "quasi", "quart". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "quant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "quant" is \kɑ̃t\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "quant" come from?
"quant" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Other entries that begin with the letter Q in our French index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.