Quignard
The verdict
“Quignard” is uncommon French (frequency #83,295 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,295
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quignard · Quignard · French
Quignard · rank #83,295 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,295
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH questionnés
Nearest frequency peer: questionnés (-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 « Quignard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Pérugin
Pérugin
16,711 corpus weight
- questionnés
questionnés
16,707 corpus weight
- Quignard
Quignard
16,706 corpus weight
- quignon
quignon
16,705 corpus weight
- Quincampoix
Quincampoix
16,703 corpus weight
- raccommoder
raccommoder
16,702 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Quignard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Quignard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,295 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Quignard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Quignard is uncommon French at frequency #83,295 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Quignard has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Quignard, spelled Q-U-I-G-N-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Quignard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’animateur Augustin Trapenard accueille, entre autres, Pascal Quignard, Cynthia Fleury, Jean-Baptiste Andrea, et Maria Pourchet, pour son livre Western.
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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