quantum
\kɑ̃.tɔm\
The verdict
“quantum” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,586. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,586
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Montant (d'une amende, d'une indemnité, d'une part), quotité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quantum · quantum · French
quantum · rank #27,586 · 10 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #27,586
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH raccord
Nearest frequency peer: raccord (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « quantum »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- prétextant
prétextant
72,419 corpus weight
- publiera
publiera
72,418 corpus weight
- quantum
quantum
72,415 corpus weight
- raccord
raccord
72,414 corpus weight
- rangés
rangés
72,412 corpus weight
- rapatrier
rapatrier
72,411 corpus weight
What this shows « quantum » 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).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quantum |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.tɔm\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #27,586 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « quantum »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around quantum (IPA \kɑ̃.tɔm\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,586 among 352 “Q” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for quantum, with forms such as "qauntum", "qquantum", and "quanntum". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "quant", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is quantum, spelled Q-U-A-N-T-U-M.
Definition
- 1Montant (d'une amende, d'une indemnité, d'une part), quotité.
- 2Quantité finie et déterminée.
- 3Plus petite mesure indivisible.
- 4Photon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quantum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le quantum des dommages sera fixé par jugement.
Le problème de la responsabilité civile des ministres est en grande partie un problème d'école du fait qu'il y a disproportion entre le patrimoine personnel du ministre et le quantum des dépassements de crédits et des dommages dont il peut être responsable.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- qauntum
- qquantum
- quanntum
- quantmu
- quanttum
- quantumm
- quanutm
- quatnum
- qunatum
- uqantum
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of quantum - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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