quickly

\ˈkwɪk.li\

/\ˈkwɪk.li\/ adv

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « quickly » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for quickly
PropertyValue
Headwordquickly
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdverb
IPA\ˈkwɪk.li\
Letters7
Frequency rank#87,066
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « quickly » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).quicklytombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « quadrangulaires » (#87,065), « rabaissent » (#87,067), « Qatarien » (#87,064). Parmi 352 lemmes en « Q », « quickly » est au #87,066. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Rapidement.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how quickly appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. The result will be computed quickly, even for huge numbers consisting of hundreds of digits, because Euclid's algorithm is extremely efficient.
  2. 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.

Synonyms

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "quickly"?
"quickly" is spelled Q-U-I-C-K-L-Y. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈkwɪk.li\.
What does "quickly" mean?
As an adverb, "quickly" means: Rapidement.
How do you pronounce "quickly"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "quickly" is \ˈkwɪk.li\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "quickly" come from?
"quickly" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "quickly", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list