quiconque
\ki.kɔ̃k\
The verdict
“quiconque” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,175. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,175
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Toute personne qui, qui que ce soit qui.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quiconque · quiconque · French
quiconque · rank #5,175 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #5,175
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH Psychologie
Nearest frequency peer: Psychologie (-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 « quiconque »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- protégé
protégé
94,829 corpus weight
- prévues
prévues
94,828 corpus weight
- Psychologie
Psychologie
94,827 corpus weight
- quiconque
quiconque
94,826 corpus weight
- rappelé
rappelé
94,825 corpus weight
- reconnue
reconnue
94,824 corpus weight
What this shows « quiconque » 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 | quiconque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | \ki.kɔ̃k\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,175 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « quiconque »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around quiconque (IPA \ki.kɔ̃k\), apronoun. Corpus frequency is #5,175 among 352 “Q” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Toute personne qui, qui que ce soit qui.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for quiconque, with forms such as "qiuconque", "qquiconque", and "qucionque". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "quelconque", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is quiconque, spelled Q-U-I-C-O-N-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Toute personne qui, qui que ce soit qui.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quiconque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais je conseille peu l’Islande aux malades, aux invalides et à quiconque est habitué au confort des hôtels et des wagons-lits.
Très curieux de son naturel, il était toujours informé avant quiconque des menus potins du pays et n’avait pas son pareil pour les répandre et les amplifier.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- qiuconque
- qquiconque
- qucionque
- quicconque
- quicnoque
- quiconnque
- quiconqeu
- quiconqque
- quiconuqe
- quicoqnue
- quiocnque
- uqiconque
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of quiconque - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "quiconque", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).