Queyras
The verdict
“Queyras” is uncommon French (frequency #61,817 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,817
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-queyras · Queyras · French
Queyras · rank #61,817 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,817
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH quali
Nearest frequency peer: quali (-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 « Queyras »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- quadratique
quadratique
38,187 corpus weight
- quali
quali
38,185 corpus weight
- Queyras
Queyras
38,184 corpus weight
- quintaux
quintaux
38,183 corpus weight
- rachidien
rachidien
38,181 corpus weight
- Rachline
Rachline
38,180 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Queyras » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Queyras |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,817 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Queyras » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Queyras is uncommon French at frequency #61,817 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Queyras doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Queyras, spelled Q-U-E-Y-R-A-S.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Queyras appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je suis partie là-bas étudier mon instrument avec un autre violoncelliste français, Jean-Guilhem Queyras, d’abord à la Musikhochschule de Stuttgart puis à Fribourg-en-Brisgau.
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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