quintal
\kɛ̃.tal\
The verdict
“quintal” is uncommon French (frequency #52,297 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,297
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancienne mesure de masse de 100 livres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quintal · quintal · French
quintal · rank #52,297 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,297
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH quinquagénaire
Nearest frequency peer: quinquagénaire (-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 « quintal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Q3
Q3
47,707 corpus weight
- quadragénai…
quadragénaire
47,706 corpus weight
- quinquagéna…
quinquagénaire
47,705 corpus weight
- quintal
quintal
47,704 corpus weight
- rageur
rageur
47,702 corpus weight
- rambarde
rambarde
47,701 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « quintal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quintal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɛ̃.tal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,297 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « quintal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
quintal is uncommon French at frequency #52,297 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɛ̃.tal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
quintal has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is quintal, spelled Q-U-I-N-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1Ancienne mesure de masse de 100 livres.
- 2Unité de mesure de masse qui correspond à 100 kilogrammes (symbole : q).
- 3Unité de mesure de masse anglo-saxonne, valant soit 100 livres (quintal court ou cental) ou 112 livres (quintal fort).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quintal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Sénégal peut fournir , année commune , cinquante captifs, quatre mille cuirs, douze cens quintaux de gomme, & vingt quintaux de morfil.
Ils emportaient pour trois mois de vivres, c’est-à-dire trois quintaux de farine, cinquante livres de riz, cinquante livres de farine d’avoine, un quintal de viande de cheval séchée.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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