quin
The verdict
“quin” is uncommon French (frequency #51,687 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,687
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonyme de quinquina.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quin · quin · French
quin · rank #51,687 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,687
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH quatuors
Nearest frequency peer: quatuors (-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 « quin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pump
pump
48,319 corpus weight
- périphéries
périphéries
48,318 corpus weight
- quarantième
quarantième
48,317 corpus weight
- quasimodo
quasimodo
48,316 corpus weight
- quatuors
quatuors
48,315 corpus weight
- quin
quin
48,314 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « quin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #51,687 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « quin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
quin is uncommon French at frequency #51,687 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonyme de quinquina.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for quin, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is quin, spelled Q-U-I-N.
Definition
- 1Synonyme de quinquina.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how quin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous lui devons Condé.... Le quin fera longtemps durer ses destinées.
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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