quintus
\kɛ̃.tys\
The verdict
“quintus” is uncommon French (frequency #51,070 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,070
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cinquième orteil en partant de l’intérieur du pied chez les Primates.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quintus · quintus · French
quintus · rank #51,070 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,070
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH qualitativeme…
Nearest frequency peer: qualitativement (-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 « quintus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- préventivem…
préventivement
48,935 corpus weight
- pédicure
pédicure
48,934 corpus weight
- périlleuses
périlleuses
48,933 corpus weight
- qualitative…
qualitativement
48,932 corpus weight
- quintus
quintus
48,931 corpus weight
- raccords
raccords
48,930 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « quintus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quintus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɛ̃.tys\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,070 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « quintus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
quintus is uncommon French at frequency #51,070 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɛ̃.tys\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cinquième orteil en partant de l’intérieur du pied chez les Primates.".
Zero misspellings are on record for quintus in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is quintus, spelled Q-U-I-N-T-U-S.
Definition
- 1Cinquième orteil en partant de l’intérieur du pied chez les Primates.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how quintus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Enfin, le petit orteil est aussi appelé l’exterius ou quintus (cinquième) car il est situé à l’extérieur du pied.
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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