quintaux
\kɛ̃.to\
The verdict
“quintaux” is uncommon French (frequency #61,818 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,818
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de quintal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quintaux · quintaux · French
quintaux · rank #61,818 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,818
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH Queyras
Nearest frequency peer: Queyras (-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 « quintaux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- quadratique
quadratique
38,187 corpus weight
- quali
quali
38,185 corpus weight
- Queyras
Queyras
38,184 corpus weight
- quintaux
quintaux
38,183 corpus weight
- rachidien
rachidien
38,181 corpus weight
- Rachline
Rachline
38,180 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « quintaux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quintaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɛ̃.to\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #61,818 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « quintaux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
quintaux is uncommon French at frequency #61,818 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɛ̃.to\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de quintal.".
No misspelling variants are generated for quintaux in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is quintaux, spelled Q-U-I-N-T-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de quintal.
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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