quantité de
The verdict
“quantité de” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Beaucoup de, de nombreux, un grand nombre de.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quantité de |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.ti.te də\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “quantité de” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for quantité de is 11 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɑ̃.ti.te də\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Beaucoup de, de nombreux, un grand nombre de.".
No misspelling variants are generated for quantité de in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 quantité de, spelled Q-U-A-N-T-I-T-É- -D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Beaucoup de, de nombreux, un grand nombre de.
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Using “quantité de”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is Q-U-A-N-T-I-T-É- -D-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kɑ̃.ti.te də\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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