quêtes
\kɛt\
The verdict
“quêtes” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,785. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,785
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de quête.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quetes · quêtes · French
quêtes · rank #25,785 · 9 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,785
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH pénibilité
Nearest frequency peer: pénibilité (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « quêtes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- publiait
publiait
74,220 corpus weight
- pédiatrie
pédiatrie
74,219 corpus weight
- pénibilité
pénibilité
74,217 corpus weight
- quêtes
quêtes
74,216 corpus weight
- Rabelais
Rabelais
74,215 corpus weight
- recensé
recensé
74,212 corpus weight
What this shows « quêtes » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | quêtes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɛt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #25,785 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « quêtes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around quêtes (IPA \kɛt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,785 among 352 “Q” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de quête.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for quêtes, with forms such as "qquêtes", "quetes", and "qutêes". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "queue", "quote", "quite", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is quêtes, spelled Q-U-Ê-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de quête.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- qquêtes
- quetes
- qutêes
- quêets
- quêtess
- quêtse
- quêttes
- qêutes
- uqêtes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of quêtes - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "quêtes", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).