quinze
\kɛ̃z\
The verdict
“quinze” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,955. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,955
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quatorze plus un, adjectif numéral cardinal correspondant au nombre 15.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quinze · quinze · French
quinze · rank #2,955 · 8 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,955
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH queue
Nearest frequency peer: queue (-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 « quinze »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- publicité
publicité
97,050 corpus weight
- publiée
publiée
97,049 corpus weight
- queue
queue
97,047 corpus weight
- quinze
quinze
97,046 corpus weight
- rejoint
rejoint
97,044 corpus weight
- religieuse
religieuse
97,043 corpus weight
What this shows « quinze » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quinze |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɛ̃z\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,955 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « quinze »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around quinze (IPA \kɛ̃z\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #2,955 among 352 “Q” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for quinze, with forms such as "qiunze", "qquinze", and "quinez". 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. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "Quiz", "quizz", "quite", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 quinze, spelled Q-U-I-N-Z-E.
Definition
- 1Quatorze plus un, adjectif numéral cardinal correspondant au nombre 15.
- 2Quinzième.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quinze appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En un village de trois cents habitants, où il y avait autrefois cinq cabarets, il y en a quinze maintenant, et tous font leurs affaires.
Céline Thiébault était alors une jeune fille « bienfaisante », une de ces grandes filles brunes qui paraissent vingt ans au lieu de quinze, de celles qu’à la campagne on compare volontiers à une pouliche et que les hommes, vieux et jeunes, détaillent avec une basse envie, un violent désir.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- qiunze
- qquinze
- quinez
- quinnze
- quinzze
- quizne
- qunize
- uqinze
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of quinze - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).