quadriceps
\kwa.dʁi.sɛps\
The verdict
“quadriceps” is uncommon French (frequency #64,722 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,722
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Muscle de la cuisse, situé en avant et autour du fémur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quadriceps · quadriceps · French
quadriceps · rank #64,722 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,722
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH pétrir
Nearest frequency peer: pétrir (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « quadriceps »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pédopsychia…
pédopsychiatre
35,282 corpus weight
- pétrir
pétrir
35,280 corpus weight
- quadriceps
quadriceps
35,279 corpus weight
- questionnant
questionnant
35,278 corpus weight
- raccordée
raccordée
35,276 corpus weight
- radiés
radiés
35,275 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « quadriceps » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quadriceps |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kwa.dʁi.sɛps\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #64,722 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « quadriceps » en français
Rare enough to double-check
quadriceps is uncommon French at frequency #64,722 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kwa.dʁi.sɛps\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Muscle de la cuisse, situé en avant et autour du fémur.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for quadriceps in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is quadriceps, spelled Q-U-A-D-R-I-C-E-P-S.
Definition
- 1Muscle de la cuisse, situé en avant et autour du fémur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quadriceps appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Maxime Sivis, Matthis Riou (quadriceps) et Pierre Lemonnier (adducteurs) seront absents.
Pour jouer au kho-kho, courir ou s’accroupir, les quadriceps et les muscles ischio-jambiers sont utilisés.
This word in other languages
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.
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