quittait

\ki.tɛ\

/\ki.tɛ\/ verb

The verdict

“quittait” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,641. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#19,641
frequency rank, French
352
“Q” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif du verbe quitter.

Corpus desk

Index FR-quittait · quittait · French

quittait · rank #19,641 · 9 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #19,641
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-MID 352
  • PHOTO-FINISH qualifiant

Nearest frequency peer: qualifiant (-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 « quittait »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « quittait » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

quittait vs quittent
75% similar
quittait vs quittant
88% similar
quittait vs quitterait
80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for quittait
PropertyValue
Headwordquittait
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ki.tɛ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#19,641
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « quittait »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).quittaitse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « qualifiant » (#19,640), « pétanque » (#19,639), « rameau » (#19,643). Parmi 352 lemmes en « Q », « quittait » est au #19,641. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around quittait (IPA \ki.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #19,641 among 352 “Q” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif du verbe quitter.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for quittait, with forms such as "qiuttait", "qquittait", and "quitait". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "quittent", "quittant", "quitterait", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No explicit etymology string is stored 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 quittait, spelled Q-U-I-T-T-A-I-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif du verbe quitter.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how quittait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il me souvint, précisément, à ce bal de la Java, d’une de ces créatures qu’un jeune voyou ne quittait pas des yeux.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • qiuttait
  • qquittait
  • quitait
  • quitatit
  • quittaitt
  • quittati
  • quittiat
  • qutitait
  • uqittait

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of quittait - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

qiuttait2qquittait1quitait1quitatit2quittaitt1quittati2quittiat2qutitait2
Edit distance from "quittait"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "quittait"?
"quittait" is spelled Q-U-I-T-T-A-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ki.tɛ\.
What does "quittait" mean?
As a verb, "quittait" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif du verbe quitter.
What words are commonly confused with "quittait"?
"quittait" is commonly confused with "quittent", "quittant", "quitterait". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "quittait"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "quittait" is \ki.tɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "quittait" come from?
"quittait" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "quittait", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list