kitsvsquitteWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: kits is a noun, quitte is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“kits” is a noun and “quitte” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#22,600
“kits” frequency rank
#1,752
“quitte” frequency rank
24352
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature kits quitte
Definition Pluriel de kit. Libéré d’une dette, d’une obligation, d’un devoir moral.

Same sound, different letters: kits vs quitte

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 2 letters.

4 ch
kits
6 ch
quitte

Ear matches; page differs - kits and quitte

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: kits and quitte carry the same recorded pronunciation, \kit\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anoun, the other anadjective, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 24352, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

kits is recorded at frequency rank #22,600, classified as anoun, pronounced \kit\. quitte is at rank #1,752, tagged as anadj, pronounced \kit\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 24352, this pair ranks #347,090 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of kits vs quitte

Shared letters: it. Private to "kits": ks. Private to "quitte": equ.

"kits" · 4 letters · shape CVCC  ·  "quitte" · 6 letters · shape CVVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • kitsikts · kist · kitss · kitts · kkits · ktis
  • quitteqiutte · qquitte · quitet · qutite · uqitte

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "kits" and "quitte" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "kits" is a noun and "quitte" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "kits" or "quitte" show up more?
"quitte" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,752 in our French list, against #22,600 for "kits". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

You've separated the homophone pair "kits" / "quitte". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "kits" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "quitte" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #347,090 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "kits" and "quitte" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "kiko vs kits". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #347,090 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list