queux
\kø\
The verdict
“queux” is uncommon French (frequency #90,085 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,085
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cuisinier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-queux · queux · French
queux · rank #90,085 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,085
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH quartile
Nearest frequency peer: quartile (-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 « queux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- quartette
quartette
9,918 corpus weight
- quartile
quartile
9,917 corpus weight
- queux
queux
9,916 corpus weight
- quien
quien
9,915 corpus weight
- quinconces
quinconces
9,914 corpus weight
- quis
quis
9,913 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « queux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | queux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kø\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #90,085 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « queux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
queux is uncommon French at frequency #90,085 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cuisinier.".
No misspelling variants are generated for queux in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is queux, spelled Q-U-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Cuisinier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how queux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un hasteur, un potager, un saussier, un queux, un sommelier d’armures, deux valets de sommiers à raison de dix livres par mois chaque !
La conversation s’établit entre tous, de table à table, tous unis, tous amis, tous frères : le curé, le queux, le notaire, son partenaire, et l’hôtelière au nom si doux (c’est Baiselat : le nom promet ; elle a tenu, et au-delà).
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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