Which to use
“quite” is a noun and “quote” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #49,886
- “quite” frequency rank
- #20,831
- “quote” frequency rank
- 70717
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | quite | quote |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Passe de cape destinée à éloigner le taureau de l’endroit où il pourrait blesser un torero. | Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de quoter. |
Letter map: quite vs quote
Shared letters muted; letters that set quite and quote apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. quite and quote follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Part-of-speech tell for quite / quote
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: quite is anoun and quoteaverb. On the page they differ by a single letter - i in “quite” becomes o in “quote”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 70717, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
quite is recorded at frequency rank #49,886, classified as anoun. quote is at rank #20,831, tagged as averb, pronounced \kwot\.
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 70717, this pair ranks #50,308 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of quite vs quote
Shared letters: eqtu. Private to "quite": i. Private to "quote": o.
"quite" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV · "quote" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "quite" and "quote" be used interchangeably?
In ordinary French text, does "quite" or "quote" show up more?
Useful next steps
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- Full dictionary entry for "quite" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "quote" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #50,308 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "quite" and "quote" 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 #50,308 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.