Quevilly

name

The verdict

“Quevilly” is uncommon French (frequency #54,193 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#54,193
frequency rank, French
352
“Q” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom court su Petit-Quevilly.

Corpus desk

Index FR-quevilly · Quevilly · French

Quevilly · rank #54,193 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #54,193
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 352
  • PHOTO-FINISH quay

Nearest frequency peer: quay (-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 « Quevilly »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Quevilly » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Quevilly
PropertyValue
HeadwordQuevilly
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters8
Frequency rank#54,193
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Quevilly » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).Quevillytombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « quay » (#54,192), « Rabhi » (#54,194), « qqc » (#54,191). Parmi 352 lemmes en « Q », « Quevilly » est au #54,193. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Quevilly is uncommon French at frequency #54,193 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom court su Petit-Quevilly.".

Quevilly has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Quevilly, spelled Q-U-E-V-I-L-L-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom court su Petit-Quevilly.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Quevilly appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. « Quand un club cherche un entraîneur, tu as 120, 130 entraîneurs diplômés, dispos et libres », avance celui qui gère notamment les intérêts d’Olivier Echouafni, l’entraîneur de l'US Quevilly, et de Stéphane Dumont sur le banc de Guingamp.

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

How do you spell "Quevilly"?
"Quevilly" is spelled Q-U-E-V-I-L-L-Y.
What does "Quevilly" mean?
As a proper noun, "Quevilly" means: Nom court su Petit-Quevilly.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Quevilly", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list