quel que soit
\kɛl kə swa\
The verdict
“quel que soit” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pour tout, pour n’importe lequel des éléments désignés ensuite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quel-que-soit · quel que soit · French
quel que soit · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "Q" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quel que soit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɛl kə swa\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « quel que soit » en français
Rare enough to double-check
quel que soit is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɛl kə swa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pour tout, pour n’importe lequel des éléments désignés ensuite.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for quel que soit, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is quel que soit, spelled Q-U-E-L- -Q-U-E- -S-O-I-T.
Definition
- 1Pour tout, pour n’importe lequel des éléments désignés ensuite.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quel que soit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous avons dit que l’impôt sera odieux, quel qu’en soit le montant, tant qu’il prendra dans la bourse du contribuable, pour ne rien y rapporter.
Quelles que soient la bonne foi et la conviction de ceux qui proclament le danger de cet article, et qui veulent le faire rejeter, j’atteste qu’avec la même bonne foi je suis intimement convaincu de ses salutaires effets, […].
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.