Which to use
“quite” is a noun and “quittée” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #49,886
- “quite” frequency rank
- #24,349
- “quittée” frequency rank
- 74235
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | quite | quittée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Passe de cape destinée à éloigner le taureau de l’endroit où il pourrait blesser un torero. | Participe passé féminin singulier de quitter. |
Letter map: quite vs quittée
Shared letters muted; letters that set quite and quittée apart highlighted. Shared run: 5. quite runs 5 letters (CVVCV) against quittée's 7 (CVVCCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Part-of-speech tell for quite / quittée
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: quite is anoun and quittéeaverb. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 74235, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
quite is recorded at frequency rank #49,886, classified as anoun. quittée is at rank #24,349, tagged as averb, pronounced \ki.te\.
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 74235, this pair ranks #37,781 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of quite vs quittée
Shared letters: eiqtu. Private to "quite": -. Private to "quittée": é.
"quite" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV · "quittée" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVV
Known mistypes of this pair
- quite ← qiute · qquite · quiet · qutie · uqite
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "quite" and "quittée" be used interchangeably?
In ordinary French text, does "quite" or "quittée" show up more?
What to do next
Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "quite" and "quittée".
- Full dictionary entry for "quite" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "quittée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #37,781 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "quite" and "quittée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "quite vs quot". 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 #37,781 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.