quantité

Name: quantité, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\kɑ̃.ti.te\

/\kɑ̃.ti.te\/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“quantité” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,097. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,097
frequency rank, French: 352
“Q” headwords: 12
tracked misspellings: 3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tout ce qui peut être mesuré par un nombre, et par conséquent susceptible d’accroissement ou de diminution.

Corpus desk

Index FR-quantite · quantité · French

quantité · rank #2,097 · 12 variants · 3 confusables

FREQ-COMMON #2,097
LEN-LONG 8 letters
VOW-4 4 vowels
CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
VAR-MID 12 variants
BOOK-MID 352
PHOTO-FINISH présidentielle

Nearest frequency peer: présidentielle (-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.

pauvres

97,908
présidentie…

97,905
quantité

97,904
race

97,903
rares

97,902
reconnu

97,901

What this shows « quantité » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

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

quantité vs quantités

89% similar

quantité vs qualité

75% similar

quantité vs quantique

67% similar

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

Key facts for quantité
Property	Value
Headword	quantité
Language	French
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	\kɑ̃.ti.te\
Letters	8
Frequency rank	#2,097
Misspellings tracked	12
Confusable pairs	3
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « quantité »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.quantitése place ici:

#2,097

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « présidentielle » (#2,096), « race » (#2,098), « rares » (#2,099). Parmi 352 lemmes en « Q », « quantité » est au #2,097. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around quantité (IPA \kɑ̃.ti.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,097 among 352 “Q” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for quantité, with forms such as "qauntité", "qquantité", and "quanitté". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "quantités", "qualité", "quantique", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is quantité, spelled Q-U-A-N-T-I-T-É.

Definition

1
Tout ce qui peut être mesuré par un nombre, et par conséquent susceptible d’accroissement ou de diminution.
2
Nombre plus ou moins grand, proportion plus ou moins grande de personnes ou de choses.
3
Multitude, abondance.
4
Quantité vocalique. Durée longue ou brève des syllabes.
5
Durée relative que les notes ou les syllabes doivent avoir.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

[…] ; une petite quantité de farine de seigle, mêlée à la farine de blé, lui communique une saveur agréable.
Les petits faux sauniers imaginaient aussi toutes sortes de camouflages pour passer de faibles quantités de faux sel.

Synonyms

masse mesure

This word in other languages

quantity(English)cantidad(Español)Menge(Deutsch)quantidade(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

qauntité
qquantité
quanitté
quanntité
quantite
quantitté
quantiét
quanttité
quanttié
quatnité
qunatité
uqantité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

Edit distance from "quantité"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "quantité"?

"quantité" is spelled Q-U-A-N-T-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \kɑ̃.ti.te\.

What does "quantité" mean?

As a noun, "quantité" means: Tout ce qui peut être mesuré par un nombre, et par conséquent susceptible d’accroissement ou de diminution.

What words are commonly confused with "quantité"?

"quantité" is commonly confused with "quantités", "qualité", "quantique". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "quantité"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "quantité" is \kɑ̃.ti.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "quantité" come from?

"quantité" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.

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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

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