quérir

\ke.ʁiʁ\

/\ke.ʁiʁ\/ verb

The verdict

“quérir” is uncommon French (frequency #68,594 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#68,594
frequency rank, French
352
“Q” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chercher avec charge d’amener la personne, ou d’apporter la chose dont il est question.

Corpus desk

Index FR-querir · quérir · French

quérir · rank #68,594 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #68,594
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 352
  • PHOTO-FINISH quereller

Nearest frequency peer: quereller (-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 « quérir »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « quérir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for quérir
PropertyValue
Headwordquérir
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ke.ʁiʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#68,594
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « quérir » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.quérirtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « quereller » (#68,593), « rampent » (#68,597), « pêchers » (#68,590). Parmi 352 lemmes en « Q », « quérir » est au #68,594. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

quérir is uncommon French at frequency #68,594 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ke.ʁiʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

quérir doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is quérir, spelled Q-U-É-R-I-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Chercher avec charge d’amener la personne, ou d’apporter la chose dont il est question.
  2. 2
    Chercher.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how quérir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. L’idée leur vint alors d’abattre le poirier : ils allèrent quérir des haches et commencèrent à le frapper tous ensemble […]
  2. — Faites-moi crédit de quelques minutes, mon cher confrère, afin que je puisse quérir votre travail. Sans doute l’ai-je rangé dans ma librairie en quelque coin.

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); 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

How do you spell "quérir"?
"quérir" is spelled Q-U-É-R-I-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ke.ʁiʁ\.
What does "quérir" mean?
As a verb, "quérir" means: Chercher avec charge d’amener la personne, ou d’apporter la chose dont il est question.
How do you pronounce "quérir"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "quérir" is \ke.ʁiʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "quérir" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "quérir", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list