quetta
\kɛ.ta\
The verdict
“quetta” is uncommon French (frequency #96,284 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,284
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe quetter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quetta · quetta · French
quetta · rank #96,284 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,284
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH querellent
Nearest frequency peer: querellent (-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 « quetta »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pérorer
pérorer
3,721 corpus weight
- pétantes
pétantes
3,720 corpus weight
- querellent
querellent
3,718 corpus weight
- quetta
quetta
3,717 corpus weight
- quitteraient
quitteraient
3,716 corpus weight
- Racan
Racan
3,714 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « quetta » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quetta |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɛ.ta\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #96,284 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « quetta » en français
Rare enough to double-check
quetta is uncommon French at frequency #96,284 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɛ.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe quetter.".
quetta has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 quetta, spelled Q-U-E-T-T-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe quetter.
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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