Quiz
\kvɪs\
The verdict
“Quiz” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,957) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,957
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quiz.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quiz · Quiz · French
Quiz · rank #19,957 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,957
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH quint
Nearest frequency peer: quint (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « Quiz »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- prétendants
prétendants
80,047 corpus weight
- psychiatriq…
psychiatriques
80,046 corpus weight
- quint
quint
80,045 corpus weight
- Quiz
Quiz
80,044 corpus weight
- rancune
rancune
80,043 corpus weight
- reconduit
reconduit
80,041 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « Quiz » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | Quiz |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kvɪs\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #19,957 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Quiz »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Quiz is neighbouring look-alikes ("quoi", "quot", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \kvɪs\. Frequency #19,957 among 352 “Q” headwords. Gloss: "Quiz.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for Quiz, with forms such as "qiuz", "qquiz", and "quzi". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "quoi", "quot", "quizz", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Quiz, spelled Q-U-I-Z.
Definition
- 1Quiz.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Quiz appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ich habe bei einem Quiz über deutsche Geschichte gestern eine Million Euro gewonnen.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- qiuz
- qquiz
- quzi
- uqiz
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Quiz - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Quiz", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).