quille

\kij\

/\kij\/ noun

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The verdict

“quille” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,972. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#32,972
frequency rank, French
352
“Q” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
10
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie fixe et immergée de la coque sous le bateau faisant office de dérive fixe et de contrepoids à la gîte.

Corpus desk

Index FR-quille · quille · French

quille · rank #32,972 · 6 variants · 10 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #32,972
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-MID 352
  • PHOTO-FINISH quality

Nearest frequency peer: quality (-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 « quille »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « quille » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

quille vs quils
67% similar
quille vs quite
67% similar
quille vs quitte
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for quille
PropertyValue
Headwordquille
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kij\
Letters6
Frequency rank#32,972
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « quille »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).quillese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « quality » (#32,971), « raccroché » (#32,973), « pénuries » (#32,970). Parmi 352 lemmes en « Q », « quille » est au #32,972. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around quille (IPA \kij\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,972 among 352 “Q” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for quille, with forms such as "qiulle", "qquille", and "quile". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "quils", "quite", "quitte", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is quille, spelled Q-U-I-L-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Partie fixe et immergée de la coque sous le bateau faisant office de dérive fixe et de contrepoids à la gîte.
  2. 2
    Pièce de charpente de base à partir de laquelle la coque est construite.
  3. 3
    Élément profilé de faible allongement fixé à la partie inférieure du fuselage, en vue d’augmenter la stabilité latérale de l’avion ou d’éviter qu’il se mette en vrille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how quille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le « Français » en 1904 et le « Pourquoi pas ? » cinq ans après, laissèrent une partie de leur quille sur les roches.
  2. Le cabanement doit être évité à tout prix, d’une part parce que les points de la quille qui subissent alors la réaction de la cale ne présentent pas une solidité aussi grande que le brion […]

This word in other languages

keel(English)quilla(Español)Kiel(Deutsch)quilha(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • qiulle
  • qquille
  • quile
  • quilel
  • qulile
  • uqille

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of quille - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

qiulle2qquille1quile1quilel2qulile2uqille2
Edit distance from "quille"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "quille"?
"quille" is spelled Q-U-I-L-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kij\.
What does "quille" mean?
As a noun, "quille" means: Partie fixe et immergée de la coque sous le bateau faisant office de dérive fixe et de contrepoids à la gîte.
What words are commonly confused with "quille"?
"quille" is commonly confused with "quils", "quite", "quitte". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "quille"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "quille" is \kij\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "quille" come from?
"quille" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "quille", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

prôner#32,967planes#32,958pinard#32,956parues#32,948

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

néon6 variantsSioux6 variantsmoisi6 variantssucé6 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list