4
The verdict
“4” sits in 6 confusable pairs (corpus #161) as a numeral. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #161
- frequency rank, French
- 10
- “4” headwords
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quatre en chiffres arabes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-4 · 4 · French
4 · rank #161 · 0 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #161
- LEN-SHORT 1 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 10
- PHOTO-FINISH partie
Nearest frequency peer: partie (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « 4 »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- chose
chose
99,843 corpus weight
- doit
doit
99,842 corpus weight
- partie
partie
99,841 corpus weight
- 4
4
99,840 corpus weight
- car
car
99,839 corpus weight
- Eu
Eu
99,838 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « 4 » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | 4 |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Numeral |
| Letters | 1 |
| Frequency rank | #161 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « 4 »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for 4 is neighbouring look-alikes ("4e", "4G", …), not just typos; it is anumeral. Frequency #161 among 10 “4” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for 4, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "4e", "4G", "4K", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is 4, spelled 4.
Definition
- 1Quatre en chiffres arabes.
- 2Avril.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how 4 appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tout comme les baobabs du Petit Prince, les objets mathématiques n'ont pas d'existence matérielle. Tout le monde a déjà vu quatre pommes, mais personne n'a jamais vu le nombre 4.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.