quérir
\ke.ʁiʁ\
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
- Pétion
Pétion
31,412 corpus weight
- pêchers
pêchers
31,411 corpus weight
- quereller
quereller
31,408 corpus weight
- quérir
quérir
31,407 corpus weight
- rampent
rampent
31,404 corpus weight
- Randal
Randal
31,403 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « quérir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quérir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ke.ʁiʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #68,594 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « quérir » en français
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
- 1Chercher avec charge d’amener la personne, ou d’apporter la chose dont il est question.
- 2Chercher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quérir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’idée leur vint alors d’abattre le poirier : ils allèrent quérir des haches et commencèrent à le frapper tous ensemble […]
— 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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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