quittances
\ki.tɑ̃s\
The verdict
“quittances” is uncommon French (frequency #82,385 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,385
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de quittance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quittances · quittances · French
quittances · rank #82,385 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,385
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH quitus
Nearest frequency peer: quitus (+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 « quittances »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- questa
questa
17,619 corpus weight
- quittances
quittances
17,616 corpus weight
- quitus
quitus
17,615 corpus weight
- racheta
racheta
17,614 corpus weight
- racontars
racontars
17,613 corpus weight
- racontons
racontons
17,612 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « quittances » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quittances |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ki.tɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #82,385 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « quittances » en français
Rare enough to double-check
quittances is uncommon French at frequency #82,385 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ki.tɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de quittance.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for quittances in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is quittances, spelled Q-U-I-T-T-A-N-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de quittance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how quittances appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au-delà des hauts barons, massivement représentés, la composition de l’armée peut être reconstituée grâce à plusieurs centaines de quittances qui ont échappé à la destruction des archives de la Chambre des comptes.
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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