quinzaine

/\kɛ̃.zɛn\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,428

in French word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

quinzaine is aFrenchnoun. It means: Réunion de choses de même nature, au nombre de quinze ou à peu près. Pronounced \kɛ̃.zɛn\. It ranks #6,428 in French word frequency.

Key facts for quinzaine
PropertyValue
Headwordquinzaine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɛ̃.zɛn\
Letters9
Frequency rank#6,428
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of quinzaine in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for quinzaine is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɛ̃.zɛn\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,428 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for quinzaine, with forms such as "qiunzaine", "qquinzaine", and "quinazine". 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 quinzaine, spelled Q-U-I-N-Z-A-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Réunion de choses de même nature, au nombre de quinze ou à peu près.
  2. 2
    Quinze jours ; deux semaines.
  3. 3
    L’une des moitié d’un mois.
  4. 4
    Salaire versé tous les quinze jours.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: qiunzaine,qquinzaine,quinazine,quinnzaine,quinzaien,quinzainne,quinzanie,quinziane,quinzzaine,quiznaine,qunizaine,uqinzaine

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for quinzaine

Misspelling Variants of "quinzaine"

qiunzaine9qquinzaine10quinazine9quinnzaine10quinzaien9quinzainne10quinzanie9quinziane9
Misspelling Variants of "quinzaine"

Frequency rank: #6,428 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "quinzaine"?
"quinzaine" is spelled Q-U-I-N-Z-A-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɛ̃.zɛn\.
What does "quinzaine" mean?
As a noun, "quinzaine" means: Réunion de choses de même nature, au nombre de quinze ou à peu près.
What are common misspellings of "quinzaine"?
Common misspellings include "qiunzaine", "qquinzaine", "quinazine", "quinnzaine", "quinzaien". The correct spelling is "quinzaine".
How do you pronounce "quinzaine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "quinzaine" is \kɛ̃.zɛn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "quinzaine" come from?
"quinzaine" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.