quelques

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for quelques is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɛlk\. Corpus data places it at rank #142 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for quelques, with forms such as "qeulques", "qquelques", and "quellques". 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 also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "queues", "quelque", "quelles", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 quelques, spelled Q-U-E-L-Q-U-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.