quizz
\kwiz\
The verdict
“quizz” sits in 11 confusable pairs (corpus #29,500) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #29,500
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de quiz.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quizz · quizz · French
quizz · rank #29,500 · 4 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,500
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH questionné
Nearest frequency peer: questionné (-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 « quizz »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- queer
queer
70,504 corpus weight
- questionnem…
questionnements
70,503 corpus weight
- questionné
questionné
70,502 corpus weight
- quizz
quizz
70,501 corpus weight
- RAF
RAF
70,500 corpus weight
- raffinage
raffinage
70,499 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « quizz » 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 | quizz |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kwiz\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #29,500 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « quizz »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for quizz is neighbouring look-alikes ("qui", "quid", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \kwiz\. Frequency #29,500 among 352 “Q” headwords. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de quiz.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for quizz, with forms such as "qiuzz", "qquizz", and "quziz". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "qui", "quid", "quil", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is quizz, spelled Q-U-I-Z-Z.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de quiz.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quizz appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Du côté des membres de l’équipe qui allaient faire les épreuves d’art et culture, il n’y avait qu’Oriane, Alexia et Enzo qui étudiaient à la bibliothèque pour le quizz et Kilian, Raphaël et Mikaëla qui se cultivaient d’avantage au niveau musical.
Pour notre propos, on notera au passage que des précurseurs et/ou les intéressés avec les thérapeutes et les éducateurs, tous étant des co-thérapeutes ou des experts, peuvent être retrouvés facilement; ce sont, par exemple, les auto-tests issu des DSM⁷ successifs, des “quizzs” où chacun peut questionner son degré de névrose, de dépression, de narcissisme,…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- qiuzz
- qquizz
- quziz
- uqizz
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of quizz - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "quizz", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).