quoi
\kwa\
The verdict
“quoi” sits in 16 confusable pairs (corpus #123) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #123
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quelle chose, dans la fonction d’objet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quoi · quoi · French
quoi · rank #123 · 4 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #123
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH déjà
Nearest frequency peer: déjà (-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 « quoi »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- toi
toi
99,881 corpus weight
- 3
3
99,880 corpus weight
- déjà
déjà
99,879 corpus weight
- quoi
quoi
99,878 corpus weight
- soit
soit
99,877 corpus weight
- trop
trop
99,876 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « quoi » 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 | quoi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | \kwa\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #123 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « quoi »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for quoi is neighbouring look-alikes ("quot", "quota", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced \kwa\. Frequency #123 among 352 “Q” headwords. Gloss: "Quelle chose, dans la fonction d’objet.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for quoi, with forms such as "qoui", "qquoi", and "quio". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "quot", "quota", "quote", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is quoi, spelled Q-U-O-I.
Definition
- 1Quelle chose, dans la fonction d’objet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quoi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quoi de plus heureux que ce qui vous arrive ?
De quoi est-il question ? À quoi pensez-vous ?
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- qoui
- qquoi
- quio
- uqoi
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of quoi - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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