quechua

/\ke.ʃɥa\/ adj

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#39,957

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

quechua is anFrenchadj. It means: Relatif aux Quechuas, leur culture, leur langue. Pronounced \ke.ʃɥa\.

Key facts for quechua
PropertyValue
Headwordquechua
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\ke.ʃɥa\
Letters7
Frequency rank#39,957
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for quechua is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ke.ʃɥa\. Corpus data places it at rank #39,957 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for quechua, with forms such as "qeuchua", "qquechua", and "qucehua". 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 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 quechua, spelled Q-U-E-C-H-U-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Relatif aux Quechuas, leur culture, leur langue.
  2. 2
    Relatif aux lesbiennes pratiquant la randonnée et le bricolage et s'habillant généralement en sportwear, par métonymie avec la marque de vêtement.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: qeuchua,qquechua,qucehua,quecchua,quechau,quechhua,quecuha,quehcua,uqechua

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for quechua

Misspelling Variants of "quechua"

qeuchua7qquechua8qucehua7quecchua8quechau7quechhua8quecuha7quehcua7
Misspelling Variants of "quechua"

Frequency rank: #39,957 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "quechua"?
"quechua" is spelled Q-U-E-C-H-U-A. The IPA pronunciation is \ke.ʃɥa\.
What does "quechua" mean?
As an adj, "quechua" means: Relatif aux Quechuas, leur culture, leur langue.
What are common misspellings of "quechua"?
Common misspellings include "qeuchua", "qquechua", "qucehua", "quecchua", "quechau". The correct spelling is "quechua".
How do you pronounce "quechua"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "quechua" is \ke.ʃɥa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "quechua" come from?
"quechua" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.