Quartett
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,152
in German word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
Quartett is aGermannoun. It means: Musikwerk ursprünglich für vier Solostimmen, dann auch für vier Soloinstrumente Pronounced [kvaʁˈtɛt]. Often confused with Quintett.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Quartett |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kvaʁˈtɛt] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #12,152 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Quartett is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kvaʁˈtɛt]. Corpus data places it at rank #12,152 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for Quartett, with forms such as "qaurtett", "qquartett", and "quarettt". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Quintett", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Quartett, spelled Q-U-A-R-T-E-T-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Musikwerk ursprünglich für vier Solostimmen, dann auch für vier Soloinstrumente
- 2Ensemble von vier Instrumentalisten oder vier Vokalisten
- 3verbale Kurzform für Streichquartett
- 4beide vierzeiligen Strophen in einem Sonett
- 5Gruppe von vier Personen mit einer Gemeinsamkeit
- 6Kartenspiel, bei dem die Spieler möglichst viele vollständige Quartette sammeln müssen
- 7Satz vier zusammengehöriger Karten
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: qaurtett,qquartett,quarettt,quarrtett,quartet,quarttet,quarttett,quatrett,quratett,uqartett
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "Quartett"
Frequency rank: #12,152 in German
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