quickly
\ˈkwɪk.li\
The verdict
“quickly” is uncommon French (frequency #87,066 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,066
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rapidement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quickly · quickly · French
quickly · rank #87,066 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,066
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH quadrangulair…
Nearest frequency peer: quadrangulaires (-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 « quickly »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Pétrograd
Pétrograd
12,938 corpus weight
- Qatarien
Qatarien
12,937 corpus weight
- quadrangula…
quadrangulaires
12,936 corpus weight
- quickly
quickly
12,935 corpus weight
- rabaissent
rabaissent
12,934 corpus weight
- radioscopie
radioscopie
12,933 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « quickly » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quickly |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ˈkwɪk.li\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #87,066 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « quickly » en français
Rare enough to double-check
quickly is uncommon French at frequency #87,066 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \ˈkwɪk.li\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Rapidement.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for quickly, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is quickly, spelled Q-U-I-C-K-L-Y.
Definition
- 1Rapidement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quickly appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The result will be computed quickly, even for huge numbers consisting of hundreds of digits, because Euclid's algorithm is extremely efficient.
This volume of specially written papers is a fitting tribute to Hyman Minsky’s work as it relates to the global financial and economic crisis that began in 2007 in the US and quickly spread around the world.
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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