Quito
\ki.to\
The verdict
“Quito” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,018. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,018
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Capitale de l’Équateur, pays d’Amérique latine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quito · Quito · French
Quito · rank #37,018 · 6 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,018
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH quadrature
Nearest frequency peer: quadrature (-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 « Quito »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- puer
puer
62,987 corpus weight
- pujol
pujol
62,986 corpus weight
- Pérouse
Pérouse
62,985 corpus weight
- quadrature
quadrature
62,984 corpus weight
- Quito
Quito
62,983 corpus weight
- rachetés
rachetés
62,981 corpus weight
What this shows « Quito » 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 | Quito |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ki.to\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #37,018 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Quito »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Quito (IPA \ki.to\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #37,018 among 352 “Q” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Capitale de l’Équateur, pays d’Amérique latine.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Quito, with forms such as "qiuto", "qquito", and "quiot". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "Quiz", "quot", "quota", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Quito, spelled Q-U-I-T-O.
Definition
- 1Capitale de l’Équateur, pays d’Amérique latine.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- qiuto
- qquito
- quiot
- quitto
- qutio
- uqito
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Quito - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).