papier quadrillé
The verdict
“papier quadrillé” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Type de papier sur lequel sont préimprimés des quadrillages.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | papier quadrillé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.pje ka.dʁi.je\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “papier quadrillé” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for papier quadrillé is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.pje ka.dʁi.je\. 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: "Type de papier sur lequel sont préimprimés des quadrillages.".
No misspelling variants are generated for papier quadrillé in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 French form is papier quadrillé, spelled P-A-P-I-E-R- -Q-U-A-D-R-I-L-L-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Type de papier sur lequel sont préimprimés des quadrillages.
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Using “papier quadrillé”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-A-P-I-E-R- -Q-U-A-D-R-I-L-L-É — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pa.pje ka.dʁi.je\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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