quinta
\kɛ̃.ta\
The verdict
“quinta” is uncommon French (frequency #58,195 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,195
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de quinter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quinta · quinta · French
quinta · rank #58,195 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,195
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH quinquennale
Nearest frequency peer: quinquennale (-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 « quinta »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pédoncule
pédoncule
41,809 corpus weight
- quinquennale
quinquennale
41,807 corpus weight
- quinta
quinta
41,806 corpus weight
- Qwant
Qwant
41,805 corpus weight
- raccordemen…
raccordements
41,804 corpus weight
- raillé
raillé
41,803 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « quinta » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quinta |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɛ̃.ta\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #58,195 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « quinta » en français
Rare enough to double-check
quinta is uncommon French at frequency #58,195 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɛ̃.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de quinter.".
No misspelling variants are generated for quinta in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 quinta, spelled Q-U-I-N-T-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de quinter.
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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