quadrature du cercle

/\kwa.dʁa.tyʁ dy sɛʁkl\/ noun

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20 characters

Language

French

word origin

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quadrature du cercle is aFrenchnoun. It means: Détermination d’un carré dont la surface serait rigoureusement égale à celle d’un cercle donné. Pronounced \kwa.dʁa.tyʁ dy sɛʁkl\.

Key facts for quadrature du cercle
PropertyValue
Headwordquadrature du cercle
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kwa.dʁa.tyʁ dy sɛʁkl\
Letters20
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

quadrature du cercle is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for quadrature du cercle is 20 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kwa.dʁa.tyʁ dy sɛʁkl\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for quadrature du cercle in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 quadrature du cercle, spelled Q-U-A-D-R-A-T-U-R-E- -D-U- -C-E-R-C-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Détermination d’un carré dont la surface serait rigoureusement égale à celle d’un cercle donné.
  2. 2
    Chose très difficile ou impossible à trouver.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "quadrature du cercle"?
"quadrature du cercle" is spelled Q-U-A-D-R-A-T-U-R-E- -D-U- -C-E-R-C-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kwa.dʁa.tyʁ dy sɛʁkl\.
What does "quadrature du cercle" mean?
As a noun, "quadrature du cercle" means: Détermination d’un carré dont la surface serait rigoureusement égale à celle d’un cercle donné.
How do you pronounce "quadrature du cercle"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "quadrature du cercle" is \kwa.dʁa.tyʁ dy sɛʁkl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "quadrature du cercle" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.