quartet
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The verdict
“quartet” is uncommon German (frequency #79,608 among 216 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,608
- frequency rank, German
- 216
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Musik / Literatur: das Quartett
Corpus desk
Index DE-quartet · quartet · German
quartet · rank #79,608 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,608
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 216
- PHOTO-FINISH Quantifizieru…
Nearest frequency peer: Quantifizierung (-1 rank slots)
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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “quartet”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Pumas
Pumas
20,398 corpus weight
- Puten
Puten
20,397 corpus weight
- Quantencomp…
Quantencomputer
20,395 corpus weight
- Quantifizie…
Quantifizierung
20,394 corpus weight
- quartet
quartet
20,393 corpus weight
- react
react
20,389 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “quartet” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quartet |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #79,608 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “quartet” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
quartet is uncommon German at frequency #79,608 among 216 “Q” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Musik / Literatur: das Quartett".
No misspelling variants are generated for quartet in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is quartet, spelled Q-U-A-R-T-E-T.
Definition
- 1Musik / Literatur: das Quartett
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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