quit
\kwɪt\
The verdict
“quit” is uncommon French (frequency #55,542 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,542
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abandonner, laisser tomber.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quit · quit · French
quit · rank #55,542 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,542
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH ramona
Nearest frequency peer: ramona (+2 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 « quit »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- quake
quake
44,462 corpus weight
- quit
quit
44,459 corpus weight
- ramona
ramona
44,457 corpus weight
- rappelaient
rappelaient
44,456 corpus weight
- rasent
rasent
44,455 corpus weight
- rattrapera
rattrapera
44,454 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « quit » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kwɪt\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #55,542 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « quit » en français
Rare enough to double-check
quit is uncommon French at frequency #55,542 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kwɪt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
quit doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is quit, spelled Q-U-I-T.
Definition
- 1Abandonner, laisser tomber.
- 2Démissionner.
- 3Quitter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
That's it! I'm quitting trying to do this. It's impossible.
I'm quitting this job.
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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