Quintin

name

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The verdict

“Quintin” is uncommon French (frequency #65,441 among 11,618 “Q” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#65,441
frequency rank, French
11,618
“Q” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département des Côtes-d’Armor.

Key facts for Quintin
PropertyValue
HeadwordQuintin
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters7
Frequency rank#65,441
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Quintin” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). Quintin lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Quintin is uncommon French at frequency #65,441 among 11,618 “Q” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département des Côtes-d’Armor.".

No misspelling variants are generated for Quintin in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Quintin, spelled Q-U-I-N-T-I-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Commune française, située dans le département des Côtes-d’Armor.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Quintin"?
"Quintin" is spelled Q-U-I-N-T-I-N.
What does "Quintin" mean?
As a proper noun, "Quintin" means: Commune française, située dans le département des Côtes-d’Armor.
What language does "Quintin" come from?
"Quintin" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Using “Quintin”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is Q-U-I-N-T-I-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words

Other uncommon French words near this rank

Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list