quiproquos
\ki.pʁɔ.kɔ\
The verdict
“quiproquos” is uncommon French (frequency #59,567 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,567
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de quiproquo.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quiproquos · quiproquos · French
quiproquos · rank #59,567 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,567
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH questionnée
Nearest frequency peer: questionnée (-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 « quiproquos »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- quakers
quakers
40,437 corpus weight
- quanti
quanti
40,436 corpus weight
- questionnée
questionnée
40,435 corpus weight
- quiproquos
quiproquos
40,434 corpus weight
- rabats
rabats
40,433 corpus weight
- raclures
raclures
40,432 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « quiproquos » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quiproquos |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ki.pʁɔ.kɔ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #59,567 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « quiproquos » en français
Rare enough to double-check
quiproquos is uncommon French at frequency #59,567 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ki.pʁɔ.kɔ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de quiproquo.".
No misspelling variants are generated for quiproquos in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is quiproquos, spelled Q-U-I-P-R-O-Q-U-O-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de quiproquo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how quiproquos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces quiproquos sont le plus souvent dus au hasard, et plus ou moins explicables par des coïncidences.
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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