quitevsquittezConfusable pair

Quick tell: quite is a noun, quittez is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“quite” is a noun and “quittez” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#49,886
“quite” frequency rank
#21,743
“quittez” frequency rank
71629
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature quite quittez
Definition Passe de cape destinée à éloigner le taureau de l’endroit où il pourrait blesser un torero. Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de quitter.

Letter map: quite vs quittez

Shared letters muted; letters that set quite and quittez apart highlighted. Shared run: 5. quite runs 5 letters (CVVCV) against quittez's 7 (CVVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
quite
7 ch
quittez

Grammar separator: quite vs quittez

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: quite is anoun and quittezaverb. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 71629, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

quite is recorded at frequency rank #49,886, classified as anoun. quittez is at rank #21,743, 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 71629, this pair ranks #46,889 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of quite vs quittez

Shared letters: eiqtu. Private to "quite": -. Private to "quittez": z.

"quite" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV  ·  "quittez" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • quite ← qiute · qquite · quiet · qutie · uqite
  • quittez ← qiuttez · qquittez · quitetz · quitez · quittezz · quittze · qutitez · uqittez

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "quite" for "quittez" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "quite" is a noun and "quittez" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "quite" or "quittez" show up more?
"quittez" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #21,743 in our French list, against #49,886 for "quite". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "quite" vs "quittez" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "quite" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "quittez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #46,889 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "quite" and "quittez" 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 #46,889 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