quadrillé
\ka.dʁi.je\
The verdict
“quadrillé” is uncommon French (frequency #60,311 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,311
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Marqué de carreaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quadrille · quadrillé · French
quadrillé · rank #60,311 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,311
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH quintet
Nearest frequency peer: quintet (+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 « quadrillé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pédiatres
pédiatres
39,694 corpus weight
- pénates
pénates
39,693 corpus weight
- péristyle
péristyle
39,692 corpus weight
- quadrillé
quadrillé
39,690 corpus weight
- quintet
quintet
39,689 corpus weight
- rabaissé
rabaissé
39,688 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « quadrillé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quadrillé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.dʁi.je\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #60,311 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « quadrillé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
quadrillé is uncommon French at frequency #60,311 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ka.dʁi.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for quadrillé, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is quadrillé, spelled Q-U-A-D-R-I-L-L-É.
Definition
- 1Marqué de carreaux.
- 2Divisé dans tous les sens.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quadrillé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une étoffe quadrillée.
Les grands devraient s’occuper des petits, préparer les repas, les emmener prendre l’air au square, assurer l’intendance générale ainsi que le programme prévu par Liane, noté en détail sur un bloc quadrillé, à côté du menu des différents repas et des recommandations concernant l’utilisation des restes.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).