quittance
\ki.tɑ̃s\
The verdict
“quittance” is uncommon French (frequency #54,824 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,824
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Écrit que l’on donne à quelqu’un et par lequel on déclare qu’il a payé, a acquitté une somme d’argent, une redevance, un droit, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quittance · quittance · French
quittance · rank #54,824 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,824
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH quarterly
Nearest frequency peer: quarterly (-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 « quittance »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- périmées
périmées
45,179 corpus weight
- quarterly
quarterly
45,178 corpus weight
- quittance
quittance
45,177 corpus weight
- radeaux
radeaux
45,176 corpus weight
- ralentissant
ralentissant
45,175 corpus weight
- Ramallah
Ramallah
45,174 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « quittance » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quittance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ki.tɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #54,824 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « quittance » en français
Rare enough to double-check
quittance is uncommon French at frequency #54,824 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ki.tɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Écrit que l’on donne à quelqu’un et par lequel on déclare qu’il a payé, a acquitté une somme d’argent, une redevance, un droit, etc.".
No misspelling variants are generated for quittance in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is quittance, spelled Q-U-I-T-T-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Écrit que l’on donne à quelqu’un et par lequel on déclare qu’il a payé, a acquitté une somme d’argent, une redevance, un droit, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how quittance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un rapport et avis d'experts porte qu'il sera planté des bornes, pour limiter les fonds de Catherine Lambert et ceux des pères Jésuites. Il existe en date du 8 octobre de la même année, une quittance de 18 livres de la susdite aux RR. PP. pour payement de la ferme du broteau des balmes.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).