Commonly used words in written English - letter Q with 34 words, sorted by frequency
The list of words starting with the letter Q that occur frequently in written English is based on an analysis of the Google Books Ngram (a collection compiled by Peter Norvig in 2012, containing close to one trillion words).
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Word Frequency is calculated as the number of occurrences in one million words.
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Word Definition is sourced from the WordNet dictionary. You'll have to look up each word page for its complete definition and Part of Speech (POS) categories.
| Word | Frequency | Definition |
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477 | (verb) challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of; (noun) an instance of questioning | |
233 | (adverb) to a degree (not used with a negative) | |
191 | (adjective) of high social status; (noun) an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone | |
97 | (noun) an adequate or large amount | |
90 | (adverb) with speed | |
76 | (verb) repeat a passage from | |
74 | (verb) promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess; (noun) the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs | |
53 | (adjective) characterized by an absence or near absence of agitation or activity | |
49 | (verb) provide housing for (military personnel); (noun) a district of a city having some distinguishing character | |
44 | (adjective) accomplished rapidly and without delay; (noun) any area of the body that is highly sensitive to pain (as the flesh underneath the skin or a fingernail or toenail) | |
39 | (noun) the 17th letter of the Roman alphabet | |
29 | (noun) housing available for people to live in | |
25 | (adjective) meeting the proper standards and requirements and training for an office or position or task | |
24 | (adverb) with little or no sound | |
22 | (noun) an attribute that must be met or complied with and that fits a person for something | |
22 | (adverb) in diagonally opposed quarters of an escutcheon; (adjective) of or relating to or consisting of a quarter | |
21 | (adjective) expressible as a quantity or relating to or susceptible of measurement | |
21 | (noun) a passage or expression that is quoted or cited | |
19 | (verb) have a disagreement over something; (noun) an angry dispute | |
19 | (verb) pose a question; (noun) an instance of questioning | |
18 | (verb) go away or leave | |
16 | (noun) a discrete amount of something that is analogous to the quantities in quantum theory | |
15 | (noun) a form containing a set of questions; submitted to people to gain statistical information | |
14 | (adjective) involving distinctions based on qualities | |
14 | (verb) make a search (for); (noun) the act of searching for something | |
13 | (noun) the French-speaking capital of the province of Quebec; situated on the Saint Lawrence River | |
11 | (adjective) perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know); (noun) a request for information | |
10 | (verb) prove capable or fit; meet requirements | |
10 | (noun) a hard glossy mineral consisting of silicon dioxide in crystal form; present in most rocks (especially sandstone and granite); yellow sand is quartz with iron oxide impurities | |
10 | (adjective) having some resemblance | |
10 | (noun) a prescribed number | |
8 | (noun) a line of people or vehicles waiting for something | |
7 | (verb) extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a quarry | |
7 | (verb) put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position | |
7 | (adjective) subject to question |