quelques
\kɛlk\
The verdict
“quelques” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #142. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #142
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de l’adjectif indéfini quelque. Un petit nombre de. — Note d’usage : Ce mot peut s’utiliser comme un numéral après un cardinal et et.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quelques · quelques · French
quelques · rank #142 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #142
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH jour
Nearest frequency peer: jour (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “quelques”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- mes
mes
99,862 corpus weight
- beaucoup
beaucoup
99,861 corpus weight
- jour
jour
99,860 corpus weight
- quelques
quelques
99,859 corpus weight
- comment
comment
99,858 corpus weight
- premier
premier
99,856 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “quelques” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | quelques |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɛlk\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #142 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “quelques” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around quelques (IPA \kɛlk\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #142 among 352 “Q” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de l’adjectif indéfini quelque. Un petit nombre de. — Note d’usage : Ce mot peut s’utiliser comme un numéral après un cardinal et et.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for quelques, with forms such as "qeulques", "qquelques", and "quellques". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "queues", "quelque", "quelles", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is quelques, spelled Q-U-E-L-Q-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de l’adjectif indéfini quelque. Un petit nombre de. — Note d’usage : Ce mot peut s’utiliser comme un numéral après un cardinal et et.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quelques appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Était-ce bien Charlotte, cette malheureuse sur laquelle, en quelques mois, semblaient s’être abattus vingt ans de maladie cruelle ?
Je finis par me demander s’il avait les quelques sous nécessaires pour se payer un plumard.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- qeulques
- qquelques
- quellques
- quelqeus
- quelqques
- quelquess
- quelquse
- queluqes
- queqlues
- quleques
- uqelques
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of quelques - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "quelques", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "quelques". Here's where to go from here.
- "quelques" maps to 3 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "queues". View pair
- 11 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #142 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "Q" letter cohort. Q–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.