Quevedo
The verdict
“Quevedo” is uncommon French (frequency #99,529 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,529
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quevedo · Quevedo · French
Quevedo · rank #99,529 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,529
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH quintilien
Nearest frequency peer: quintilien (+2 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 « Quevedo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- purgés
purgés
477 corpus weight
- pétées
pétées
476 corpus weight
- qualifiante
qualifiante
475 corpus weight
- Quevedo
Quevedo
472 corpus weight
- quintilien
quintilien
470 corpus weight
- Rabastens
Rabastens
468 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Quevedo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Quevedo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #99,529 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Quevedo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Quevedo is uncommon French at frequency #99,529 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Quevedo has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Quevedo, spelled Q-U-E-V-E-D-O.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Quevedo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lorsque Góngora quitta Madrid pour retourner finir ses jours à Cordoue, Quevedo vint occuper sa maison et, y posant le pied, déclara qu’il fallait « dégongoriser » les lieux !
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
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