quarter-section
/ˈkwoɹ.təɹ ˌsɛk.ʃən/
"quarter-section" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“quarter-section” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A square tract of laud containing 160 acres, and constituting one fourth of a section.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quarter-section |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkwoɹ.təɹ ˌsɛk.ʃən/ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “quarter-section” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for quarter-section is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈkwoɹ.təɹ ˌsɛk.ʃən/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A square tract of laud containing 160 acres, and constituting one fourth of a section.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for quarter-section, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is quarter-section, spelled Q-U-A-R-T-E-R---S-E-C-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1A square tract of laud containing 160 acres, and constituting one fourth of a section.
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.
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Using “quarter-section”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is Q-U-A-R-T-E-R---S-E-C-T-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈkwoɹ.təɹ ˌsɛk.ʃən/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.