Quincy
\kɛ̃.si\
The verdict
“Quincy” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,544. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,544
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Cher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quincy · Quincy · French
Quincy · rank #32,544 · 9 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,544
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH quils
Nearest frequency peer: quils (-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 « Quincy »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pénitentiai…
pénitentiaires
67,459 corpus weight
- quils
quils
67,458 corpus weight
- Quincy
Quincy
67,457 corpus weight
- Rachida
Rachida
67,456 corpus weight
- raclée
raclée
67,455 corpus weight
- racontera
racontera
67,454 corpus weight
What this shows « Quincy » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Quincy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kɛ̃.si\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #32,544 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Quincy »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Quincy (IPA \kɛ̃.si\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #32,544 among 352 “Q” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département du Cher.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Quincy, with forms such as "qiuncy", "qquincy", and "quicny". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Quinn", "quint", "quinze", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Quincy, spelled Q-U-I-N-C-Y.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Cher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Quincy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En 1120, le vin de Quincy est cité dans une bulle du pape Calixte II et le sauvignon y fut introduit par des moines de l'abbaye de Cîteaux.
Pavé de morue fraîche rôti au coq et à la pomme de terre violette, petit jus réduit d'estragon au vin de Quincy et fouillis de poireaux croquants.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- qiuncy
- qquincy
- quicny
- quinccy
- quincyy
- quinncy
- quinyc
- qunicy
- uqincy
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Quincy - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).