quick
\kwik\
The verdict
“quick” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,544. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,544
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Revêtement dur de certains courts de tennis.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quick · quick · French
quick · rank #14,544 · 7 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,544
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH purge
Nearest frequency peer: purge (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « quick »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- préoccupé
préoccupé
85,460 corpus weight
- purge
purge
85,458 corpus weight
- quick
quick
85,457 corpus weight
- rançon
rançon
85,456 corpus weight
- Rebecca
Rebecca
85,455 corpus weight
- recherchés
recherchés
85,454 corpus weight
What this shows « quick » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quick |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kwik\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #14,544 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « quick »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around quick (IPA \kwik\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,544 among 352 “Q” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for quick, with forms such as "qiuck", "qquick", and "qucik". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "quid", "quil", "Quiz", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is quick, spelled Q-U-I-C-K.
Definition
- 1Revêtement dur de certains courts de tennis.
- 2Court de tennis fait avec cette matière.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quick appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le court de tennis (en quick) a été refait en 2017. Il est équipé d'une chaise d'arbitre et de deux sièges spectateurs.
Autrefois réalisés en dalles de béton poreux, les courts de tennis "en dur" encore le plus souvent appelés "quick" sont actuellement réalisés en asphalte poreux par quelques rares sous-traitants spécialistes du bitume.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- qiuck
- qquick
- qucik
- quicck
- quickk
- quikc
- uqick
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of quick - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).