French Words: Q
11,618 words · Page 178 of 233
Qui comporte cinq consonnes servant de support aux éléments vocaliques, en parlant d’un mot.
Écorce de Exostema caribaeum, plante de la famille des Rubiacées (Rubiacées) qui contient de la quinine.
Nom vernaculaire de Cinchona calisaya, arbre de la famille des Rubiaceae (Rubiacées), originaire d’Equateur et du Pérou, il est utilisé pour en extraire les alcaloïdes contenus dans son écorce, en particulier la quinine et la quinidine.
Se dit des cinq éléments, l’éther, l’air, le feu, l’eau et la terre, dont les Indiens croient que tout corps est formé.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French alphabetical index for the letter Q contains 11,618 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 233 pages, and you are currently viewing page 178. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.
On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.
For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented French headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "Q" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.