quille
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#32,972
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
quille is aFrenchnoun. It means: Partie fixe et immergée de la coque sous le bateau faisant office de dérive fixe et de contrepoids à la gîte. Pronounced \kij\. Often confused with quils and quite.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kij\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #32,972 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for quille is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kij\. Corpus data places it at rank #32,972 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for quille, with forms such as "qiulle", "qquille", and "quile". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is quille, spelled Q-U-I-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Partie fixe et immergée de la coque sous le bateau faisant office de dérive fixe et de contrepoids à la gîte.
- 2Pièce de charpente de base à partir de laquelle la coque est construite.
- 3Élément 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.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: qiulle,qquille,quile,quilel,qulile,uqille
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for quille
Misspelling Variants of "quille"
Frequency rank: #32,972 in French
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