quizz

\kwiz\

/\kwiz\/ noun

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

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.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

quizz vs qui
60% similar
quizz vs quid
60% similar
quizz vs quil
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for quizz
PropertyValue
Headwordquizz
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kwiz\
Letters5
Frequency rank#29,500
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « quizz »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).quizzse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « questionné » (#29,499), « RAF » (#29,501), « questionnements » (#29,498). Parmi 352 lemmes en « Q », « quizz » est au #29,500. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Variante orthographique de quiz.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how quizz appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

qiuzz2qquizz1quziz2uqizz2
Edit distance from "quizz"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "quizz"?
"quizz" is spelled Q-U-I-Z-Z. The IPA pronunciation is \kwiz\.
What does "quizz" mean?
As a noun, "quizz" means: Variante orthographique de quiz.
What words are commonly confused with "quizz"?
"quizz" is commonly confused with "qui", "quid", "quil". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "quizz"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "quizz" is \kwiz\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "quizz" come from?
"quizz" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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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).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list