Quintin

name

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The verdict

“Quintin” is uncommon French (frequency #65,441 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#65,441
frequency rank, French
352
“Q” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département des Côtes-d’Armor.

Corpus desk

Index FR-quintin · Quintin · French

Quintin · rank #65,441 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #65,441
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 352
  • PHOTO-FINISH quinine

Nearest frequency peer: quinine (-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 « Quintin »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Quintin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Quintin
PropertyValue
HeadwordQuintin
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters7
Frequency rank#65,441
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Quintin » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Quintintombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « quinine » (#65,440), « rages » (#65,443), « pétrie » (#65,438). Parmi 352 lemmes en « Q », « Quintin » est au #65,441. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Quintin is uncommon French at frequency #65,441 among 352 “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.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Quintin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le bail de la caserne de gendarmerie de Saint-Nicolas-du-Pélem expire le 31 décembre 1880, celui de Mûr le 30 avril 1881, et ceux de Bégard et Quintin le 30 septembre 1881.
  2. Après le Grand show du lin, ce samedi, les « Bretagne » et l’industrie toilière sont de nouveau à l’honneur, dimanche, à Quintin (22).

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?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Quintin", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

quinine#65,440poseurs#65,425pompent#65,423reposés#65,461

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list