quite
The verdict
“quite” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,886. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,886
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Passe de cape destinée à éloigner le taureau de l’endroit où il pourrait blesser un torero.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quite · quite · French
quite · rank #49,886 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,886
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH quitterai
Nearest frequency peer: quitterai (+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 « quite »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pétroles
pétroles
50,119 corpus weight
- quadra
quadra
50,117 corpus weight
- quite
quite
50,115 corpus weight
- quitterai
quitterai
50,114 corpus weight
- rallient
rallient
50,113 corpus weight
- RAMQ
RAMQ
50,112 corpus weight
What this shows « quite » 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 | quite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #49,886 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « quite »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around quite, anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,886 among 352 “Q” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Passe de cape destinée à éloigner le taureau de l’endroit où il pourrait blesser un torero.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for quite, with forms such as "qiute", "qquite", and "quiet". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Quiz", "quot", "quota", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is quite, spelled Q-U-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Passe de cape destinée à éloigner le taureau de l’endroit où il pourrait blesser un torero.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how quite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ivan Fandiño, 36 ans, a été pris alors qu’il effectuait un quite à l’un des taureaux de son compatriote Juan del Alamo.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- qiute
- qquite
- quiet
- qutie
- uqite
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of quite - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).