Which to use
“quite” is a noun and “quot” is a pronoun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #49,886
- “quite” frequency rank
- #45,265
- “quot” frequency rank
- 95151
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | quite | quot |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Passe de cape destinée à éloigner le taureau de l’endroit où il pourrait blesser un torero. | Combien ? |
Letter map: quite vs quot
Shared letters muted; letters that set quite and quot apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. quite runs 5 letters (CVVCV) against quot's 4 (CVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Part-of-speech tell for quite / quot
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: quite is anoun and quotapronoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 95151, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
quite is recorded at frequency rank #49,886, classified as anoun. quot is at rank #45,265, tagged as apron.
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 95151, this pair ranks #1,223 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of quite vs quot
Shared letters: qtu. Private to "quite": ei. Private to "quot": o.
"quite" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV · "quot" · 4 letters · shape CVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "quite" and "quot" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "quite" vs "quot" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
You've compared "quite" and "quot". Here's where to go from here.
- Full dictionary entry for "quite" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "quot" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #1,223 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "quite" and "quot" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "quite vs Quito". 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 #1,223 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.