quadrige
\ka.dʁiʒ\
The verdict
“quadrige” is uncommon French (frequency #76,052 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,052
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Char antique à deux roues, attelage de quatre chevaux de front, généralement utilisé pour les courses.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quadrige · quadrige · French
quadrige · rank #76,052 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,052
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH quadrupèdes
Nearest frequency peer: quadrupèdes (+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 « quadrige »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- périront
périront
23,954 corpus weight
- pétille
pétille
23,953 corpus weight
- quadrige
quadrige
23,949 corpus weight
- quadrupèdes
quadrupèdes
23,948 corpus weight
- questeurs
questeurs
23,947 corpus weight
- racisées
racisées
23,944 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « quadrige » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quadrige |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.dʁiʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #76,052 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « quadrige » en français
Rare enough to double-check
quadrige is uncommon French at frequency #76,052 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.dʁiʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for quadrige in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 quadrige, spelled Q-U-A-D-R-I-G-E.
Definition
- 1Char antique à deux roues, attelage de quatre chevaux de front, généralement utilisé pour les courses.
- 2Statue représentant un quadrige.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quadrige appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans l’Antiquité, les courses de quadriges à Rome se déroulaient principalement au Circus Maximus.
— Mais vous n’êtes pas obligé, répliqua Blazius, d’entrer triomphalement dans la grande ville, comme un César romain monté sur un char traîné par un quadrige de chevaux blancs.
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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