quay
\kiː\
The verdict
“quay” is uncommon French (frequency #54,192 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,192
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quai d’un port.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quay · quay · French
quay · rank #54,192 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,192
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH qqc
Nearest frequency peer: qqc (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « quay »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pèsera
pèsera
45,812 corpus weight
- péan
péan
45,811 corpus weight
- qqc
qqc
45,810 corpus weight
- quay
quay
45,809 corpus weight
- Quevilly
Quevilly
45,808 corpus weight
- Rabhi
Rabhi
45,807 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « quay » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quay |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kiː\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #54,192 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « quay » en français
Rare enough to double-check
quay is uncommon French at frequency #54,192 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kiː\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Quai d’un port.".
No misspelling variants are generated for quay in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is quay, spelled Q-U-A-Y.
Definition
- 1Quai d’un port.
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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