quadrupède
[ka.dʁy.pɛd]
The verdict
“quadrupède” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - vierfüßig
Corpus desk
Index DE-quadrupede · quadrupède · German
quadrupède · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "Q" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quadrupède |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ka.dʁy.pɛd] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „quadrupède“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
quadrupède is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ka.dʁy.pɛd]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "vierfüßig".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for quadrupède, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is quadrupède, spelled Q-U-A-D-R-U-P-È-D-E.
Definition
- 1vierfüßig
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.