quiches
\kiʃ\
The verdict
“quiches” is uncommon French (frequency #56,201 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,201
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de quiche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quiches · quiches · French
quiches · rank #56,201 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,201
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH purifiée
Nearest frequency peer: purifiée (-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 « quiches »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- préférerai
préférerai
43,804 corpus weight
- Puech
Puech
43,803 corpus weight
- pumas
pumas
43,802 corpus weight
- purifiée
purifiée
43,801 corpus weight
- quiches
quiches
43,800 corpus weight
- raccourciss…
raccourcissement
43,797 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « quiches » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quiches |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kiʃ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #56,201 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « quiches » en français
Rare enough to double-check
quiches is uncommon French at frequency #56,201 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kiʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de quiche.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for quiches, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is quiches, spelled Q-U-I-C-H-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de quiche.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).