quintessence
Letters
12 characters
Frequency Rank
#35,667
in French word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
quintessence is aFrenchnoun. It means: Cinquième élément, qui s’ajoute chez les philosophes anciens aux quatre premiers (la terre, le feu, l’air, l’eau) et qui en assure la cohésion ou la vie. Pronounced \kɛ̃.te.sɑ̃s\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quintessence |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɛ̃.te.sɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #35,667 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for quintessence is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɛ̃.te.sɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #35,667 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for quintessence, with forms such as "qiuntessence", "qquintessence", and "quinetssence". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is quintessence, spelled Q-U-I-N-T-E-S-S-E-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cinquième élément, qui s’ajoute chez les philosophes anciens aux quatre premiers (la terre, le feu, l’air, l’eau) et qui en assure la cohésion ou la vie.
- 2Partie la plus subtile extraite de quelques corps, essence, éther.
- 3Essence, concentré.
- 4Ce qu’il y a de principal, de plus précieux, de plus caché dans une affaire, dans un discours, dans un livre.
- 5Ce qu’il y a de plus fin, d’essentiel, de meilleur dans une chose ou chez une personne.
- 6Forme subtile, épurée, abstraite, éthérée.
- 7Forme hypothétique d’énergie noire, proposée comme explication aux observations de l’accélération de l’expansion de l’univers.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: qiuntessence,qquintessence,quinetssence,quinntessence,quintesence,quintesesnce,quintessecne,quintessencce,quintessenec,quintessennce,quintessnece,quintsesence,quinttessence,quitnessence,qunitessence,uqintessence
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for quintessence
Misspelling Variants of "quintessence"
Frequency rank: #35,667 in French
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