montre à quartz
\mɔ̃.tʁ‿a kwaʁts\
The verdict
“montre à quartz” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Montre qui utilise un oscillateur électronique asservi par un résonateur en cristal de quartz.
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Index FR-montre-a-quartz · montre à quartz · French
montre à quartz · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" 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 | montre à quartz |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ̃.tʁ‿a kwaʁts\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « montre à quartz » en français
Rare enough to double-check
montre à quartz is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɔ̃.tʁ‿a kwaʁts\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Montre qui utilise un oscillateur électronique asservi par un résonateur en cristal de quartz.".
No misspelling variants are generated for montre à quartz in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is montre à quartz, spelled M-O-N-T-R-E- -À- -Q-U-A-R-T-Z.
Definition
- 1Montre qui utilise un oscillateur électronique asservi par un résonateur en cristal de quartz.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how montre à quartz appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si Christophe Colomb avait calculé sa position avec une montre à quartz, il n’aurait pas raté les Indes mais il n’aurait pas non plus découvert l’Amérique. Donc exit l’aventure ?
[…], un transistor beuglait à s’étouffer. Une speakerine indolente annonça qu’une montre à quartz, made in Japan, allait donner l’heure à la seconde près.
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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.