quadrilatère

\kwa.dʁi.la.tɛʁ\

/\kwa.dʁi.la.tɛʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“quadrilatère” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,991. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#37,991
frequency rank, French
352
“Q” headwords
18
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Polygone qui a quatre côtés.

Corpus desk

Index FR-quadrilatere · quadrilatère · French

quadrilatère · rank #37,991 · 18 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #37,991
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 18 variants
  • BOOK-MID 352
  • PHOTO-FINISH pérennes

Nearest frequency peer: pérennes (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « quadrilatère »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « quadrilatère » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for quadrilatère
PropertyValue
Headwordquadrilatère
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kwa.dʁi.la.tɛʁ\
Letters12
Frequency rank#37,991
Misspellings tracked18
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « quadrilatère »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.quadrilatèrese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « pérennes » (#37,990), « ques » (#37,992), « péremptoire » (#37,989). Parmi 352 lemmes en « Q », « quadrilatère » est au #37,991. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 18 spelling variants around quadrilatère (IPA \kwa.dʁi.la.tɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,991 among 352 “Q” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for quadrilatère, with forms such as "qaudrilatère", "qquadrilatère", and "quaddrilatère". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

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 quadrilatère, spelled Q-U-A-D-R-I-L-A-T-È-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Polygone qui a quatre côtés.
  2. 2
    Espace limité par quatre côtés.
  3. 3
    Bloc de terrain compris entre les rues qui le bordent. → voir pâté de maisons
  4. 4
    Espace limité par quatre côtés, dont quatre forteresses occupent les angles.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how quadrilatère appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les côtés d’un quadrilatère.
  2. Le troupeau des faisans fonctionne dans le quadrilatère que forment les rues Montmartre et Richelieu d’un côté, les boulevards et le rue Réaumur de l’autre.

Synonyms

quadrangletétragone

This word in other languages

quadrilateral(English)Viereck(Deutsch)quadrilátero(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • qaudrilatère
  • qquadrilatère
  • quaddrilatère
  • quadirlatère
  • quadrialtère
  • quadrilatere
  • quadrilatrèe
  • quadrilattère
  • quadrilatèer
  • quadrilatèrre
  • quadrilaètre
  • quadrillatère
  • quadriltaère
  • quadrliatère
  • quadrrilatère
  • quardilatère
  • qudarilatère
  • uqadrilatère

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of quadrilatère - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

qaudrilatère2qquadrilatère1quaddrilatère1quadirlatère2quadrialtère2quadrilatere1quadrilatrèe2quadrilattère1
Edit distance from "quadrilatère"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "quadrilatère"?
"quadrilatère" is spelled Q-U-A-D-R-I-L-A-T-È-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kwa.dʁi.la.tɛʁ\.
What does "quadrilatère" mean?
As a noun, "quadrilatère" means: Polygone qui a quatre côtés.
What are common misspellings of "quadrilatère"?
Common misspellings include "qaudrilatère", "qquadrilatère", "quaddrilatère", "quadirlatère", "quadrialtère". The correct spelling is "quadrilatère".
How do you pronounce "quadrilatère"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "quadrilatère" is \kwa.dʁi.la.tɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "quadrilatère" come from?
"quadrilatère" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "quadrilatère", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list