quota
\kɔ.ta\
The verdict
“quota” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,535. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,535
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quantité limitée ou réglementaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quota · quota · French
quota · rank #17,535 · 6 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,535
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH quest
Nearest frequency peer: quest (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « quota »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- péripéties
péripéties
82,468 corpus weight
- quest
quest
82,467 corpus weight
- quota
quota
82,466 corpus weight
- racontant
racontant
82,465 corpus weight
- raisonnable…
raisonnablement
82,464 corpus weight
- rassemblent
rassemblent
82,463 corpus weight
What this shows « quota » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | quota |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.ta\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #17,535 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « quota »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around quota (IPA \kɔ.ta\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,535 among 352 “Q” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Quantité limitée ou réglementaire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for quota, with forms such as "qouta", "qquota", and "quoat". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "quote", "quotas", "quoi", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is quota, spelled Q-U-O-T-A.
Definition
- 1Quantité limitée ou réglementaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quota appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si la Marche sur Rome laissa les cœurs assez froids, il en fut tout autrement d’une nouvelle qui, elle, jeta Sólanto dans un état de stupeur : l’Amérique fermait ses portes aux Italiens. Finie l’émigration… C’est de cela qu’on avait la tête hantée. Comment croire à une décision pareille ? On y voyait un affront, un désir de nuire… Nombreux étaient ceux qu…
Les prix de leurs transferts sont ainsi restés en France à des niveaux tout à fait admissibles par rapport à d'autres concurrents européens ayant laissé se développer de libres marchés des quotas ou droits à prime.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- qouta
- qquota
- quoat
- quotta
- qutoa
- uqota
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of quota - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).