quidams
\kɥi.dam\
The verdict
“quidams” is uncommon French (frequency #89,044 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,044
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de quidam.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quidams · quidams · French
quidams · rank #89,044 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,044
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH quitterez
Nearest frequency peer: quitterez (+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 « quidams »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pêne
pêne
10,961 corpus weight
- Qingdao
Qingdao
10,960 corpus weight
- quaresma
quaresma
10,959 corpus weight
- quidams
quidams
10,957 corpus weight
- quitterez
quitterez
10,956 corpus weight
- rabatteurs
rabatteurs
10,954 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « quidams » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quidams |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɥi.dam\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #89,044 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « quidams » en français
Rare enough to double-check
quidams is uncommon French at frequency #89,044 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɥi.dam\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de quidam.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for quidams, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 quidams, spelled Q-U-I-D-A-M-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de quidam.
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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