quiet
\kjɛ\
The verdict
“quiet” is uncommon French (frequency #56,849 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,849
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tranquille ; calme ; pas agité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quiet · quiet · French
quiet · rank #56,849 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,849
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH quarto
Nearest frequency peer: quarto (-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 « quiet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- péridurale
péridurale
43,155 corpus weight
- Quark
Quark
43,154 corpus weight
- quarto
quarto
43,153 corpus weight
- quiet
quiet
43,152 corpus weight
- Quinet
Quinet
43,151 corpus weight
- quotité
quotité
43,150 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « quiet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quiet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kjɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #56,849 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « quiet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
quiet is uncommon French at frequency #56,849 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kjɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tranquille ; calme ; pas agité.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for quiet, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is quiet, spelled Q-U-I-E-T.
Definition
- 1Tranquille ; calme ; pas agité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quiet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lorsque, après un festin substantiel, l’esprit quiet et la conscience en repos, on goûte l’allégresse de cheminer en pleine nature, il semble, à contempler le sublime spectacle de la forêt, que tout y est paisible est réglé à souhait pour le mieux de tous les êtres, depuis les grands fauves jusqu’au moindre brin d’herbe.
Il y avait comme une satisfaction quiète dans les yeux de M. Clément, qui allait et venait comme d’habitude et à qui il arriva plusieurs fois de sourire.
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.
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