quesque
\kɛs.kə\
The verdict
“quesque” is uncommon French (frequency #88,006 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,006
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de qu’est-ce que.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quesque · quesque · French
quesque · rank #88,006 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,006
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH quesne
Nearest frequency peer: quesne (-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 « quesque »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- Raimi
Raimi
11,992 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « quesque » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quesque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | \kɛs.kə\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #88,006 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « quesque » en français
Rare enough to double-check
quesque is uncommon French at frequency #88,006 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as apronoun, transcribed \kɛs.kə\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de qu’est-ce que.".
No misspelling variants are generated for quesque in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is quesque, spelled Q-U-E-S-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de qu’est-ce que.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quesque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quesque tu dis, quesque tu dis ?
Pouponne, si Balthazar Landry te d’mandait en mariage, quesque tu dirais ?
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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