quia
\kɥi.ja\
The verdict
“quia” is uncommon French (frequency #81,474 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,474
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Utilisée uniquement dans la locution à quia.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quia · quia · French
quia · rank #81,474 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,474
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH quarks
Nearest frequency peer: quarks (-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 « quia »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pêchées
pêchées
18,530 corpus weight
- quarks
quarks
18,528 corpus weight
- quia
quia
18,527 corpus weight
- raccoon
raccoon
18,526 corpus weight
- Radovan
Radovan
18,525 corpus weight
- ramassa
ramassa
18,523 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « quia » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quia |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \kɥi.ja\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #81,474 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « quia » en français
Rare enough to double-check
quia is uncommon French at frequency #81,474 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \kɥi.ja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Utilisée uniquement dans la locution à quia.".
Zero misspellings are on record for quia in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 quia, spelled Q-U-I-A.
Definition
- 1Utilisée uniquement dans la locution à quia.
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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