quête
\kɛt\
The verdict
“quête” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,179. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,179
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action par laquelle on cherche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quete · quête · French
quête · rank #4,179 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,179
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH quarante
Nearest frequency peer: quarante (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “quête”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- possibilités
possibilités
95,825 corpus weight
- publiés
publiés
95,824 corpus weight
- quarante
quarante
95,823 corpus weight
- quête
quête
95,822 corpus weight
- restant
restant
95,821 corpus weight
- riz
riz
95,820 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “quête” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quête |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɛt\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,179 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “quête” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around quête (IPA \kɛt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,179 among 352 “Q” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for quête, with forms such as "qquête", "quete", and "qutêe". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "quot", "queue", "quota", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is quête, spelled Q-U-Ê-T-E.
Definition
- 1Action par laquelle on cherche.
- 2Action de demander et de recueillir des aumônes pour les pauvres ou pour une œuvre de charité.
- 3Action d’un valet de limier qui va détourner une bête pour la lancer.
- 4Action du chien qui démêle la voie d’un gibier qu’on veut détourner.
- 5Ton de chasse que l’on sonne pour exciter les chiens à trouver l’animal qu'on veut leur faire chasser.
- 6Inclinaison d’un mât vers l’arrière ou l’avant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quête appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Nous sommes d’ailleurs en quête de nouveaux partenaires », souligne l’Angérien.
Là-dessus, Capestang se mit en quête d'une auberge pour s'y loger avec Cogolin.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- qquête
- quete
- qutêe
- quêet
- quêtte
- qêute
- uqête
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of quête - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "quête", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "quête". Here's where to go from here.
- "quête" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "quot". View pair
- 7 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #4,179 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "Q" letter cohort. Q–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.