quitter
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,538
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
quitter is aFrenchverb. It means: Laisser quelqu’un quelque part ; se séparer de lui. Pronounced \ki.te\. It ranks #1,538 in French word frequency. Often confused with quittez and quittés.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quitter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ki.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,538 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for quitter is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ki.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,538 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for quitter, with forms such as "qiutter", "qquitter", and "quiter". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "quittez", "quittés", "quittera", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is quitter, spelled Q-U-I-T-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Laisser quelqu’un quelque part ; se séparer de lui.
- 2Se retirer de quelque part.
- 3Abandonner une chose, y renoncer, cesser de s’y appliquer, de s’y adonner. Se désister de quelque chose, y renoncer.
- 4Sortir ; s'éloigner.
- 5Ôter quelque chose de dessus soi, s’en dépouiller, s’en débarrasser.
- 6Céder, délaisser.
- 7Exempter, affranchir, décharger, tenir quitte, dispenser.
- 8S’en aller, se retirer de quelque travail, de quelque engagement.
- 9(Ivoirisme) (Intransitif) S'éloigner, cesser, abandonner une position, partir, venir de, être originaire de
- 10Mourir, partir
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: qiutter,qquitter,quiter,quitetr,quitterr,quittre,qutiter,uqitter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for quitter
Misspelling Variants of "quitter"
Frequency rank: #1,538 in French
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