Quillan
\ki.jɑ̃\
The verdict
“Quillan” is uncommon French (frequency #67,811 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,811
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de l’Aude.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quillan · Quillan · French
Quillan · rank #67,811 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,811
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH pétillants
Nearest frequency peer: pétillants (-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 « Quillan »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- putaclic
putaclic
32,194 corpus weight
- pédagogies
pédagogies
32,193 corpus weight
- péritonéale
péritonéale
32,192 corpus weight
- pétillants
pétillants
32,191 corpus weight
- Quillan
Quillan
32,190 corpus weight
- Radu
Radu
32,186 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Quillan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Quillan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ki.jɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #67,811 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Quillan » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Quillan is uncommon French at frequency #67,811 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ki.jɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département de l’Aude.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Quillan in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Quillan, spelled Q-U-I-L-L-A-N.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de l’Aude.
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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