quesne
\kɛn\
The verdict
“quesne” is uncommon French (frequency #88,005 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,005
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de caisne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quesne · quesne · French
quesne · rank #88,005 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,005
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH quesque
Nearest frequency peer: quesque (+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 « quesne »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- quadrupler
quadrupler
12,000 corpus weight
- quarry
quarry
11,999 corpus weight
- quatro
quatro
11,998 corpus weight
- quesne
quesne
11,996 corpus weight
- quesque
quesque
11,995 corpus weight
- raconteront
raconteront
11,993 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « quesne » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quesne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɛn\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #88,005 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « quesne » en français
Rare enough to double-check
quesne is uncommon French at frequency #88,005 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de caisne.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for quesne, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is quesne, spelled Q-U-E-S-N-E.
Definition
- 1Variante de caisne.
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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