quinzaine
\kɛ̃.zɛn\
The verdict
“quinzaine” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,428. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,428
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Réunion de choses de même nature, au nombre de quinze ou à peu près.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quinzaine · quinzaine · French
quinzaine · rank #6,428 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,428
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH prévus
Nearest frequency peer: prévus (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « quinzaine »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- princes
princes
93,576 corpus weight
- préfèrent
préfèrent
93,575 corpus weight
- prévus
prévus
93,574 corpus weight
- quinzaine
quinzaine
93,573 corpus weight
- racistes
racistes
93,571 corpus weight
- rassurer
rassurer
93,570 corpus weight
What this shows « quinzaine » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quinzaine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɛ̃.zɛn\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #6,428 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « quinzaine »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around quinzaine (IPA \kɛ̃.zɛn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,428 among 352 “Q” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for quinzaine, with forms such as "qiunzaine", "qquinzaine", and "quinazine". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is quinzaine, spelled Q-U-I-N-Z-A-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Réunion de choses de même nature, au nombre de quinze ou à peu près.
- 2Quinze jours ; deux semaines.
- 3L’une des moitié d’un mois.
- 4Salaire versé tous les quinze jours.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quinzaine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On nous a, en effet, envoyé pour la détermination une liane caoutchoutifère congolaise pouvant atteindre une quinzaine de mètres de hauteur et dont les tiges, privées de vrilles, sont volubiles.
On cueillait depuis une quinzaine de jours, au long des routes vicinales, aux orées des « longs champs », autour des villages, sur des lieues et des lieues de terroir, par toutes les vallées.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- qiunzaine
- qquinzaine
- quinazine
- quinnzaine
- quinzaien
- quinzainne
- quinzanie
- quinziane
- quinzzaine
- quiznaine
- qunizaine
- uqinzaine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of quinzaine - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).