quadrillé

\ka.dʁi.je\

/\ka.dʁi.je\/ adj

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « quadrillé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for quadrillé
PropertyValue
Headwordquadrillé
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ka.dʁi.je\
Letters9
Frequency rank#60,311
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « quadrillé » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).quadrillétombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « quintet » (#60,312), « péristyle » (#60,309), « rabaissé » (#60,313). Parmi 352 lemmes en « Q », « quadrillé » est au #60,311. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Marqué de carreaux.
  2. 2
    Divisé dans tous les sens.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Une étoffe quadrillée.
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "quadrillé"?
"quadrillé" is spelled Q-U-A-D-R-I-L-L-É. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.dʁi.je\.
What does "quadrillé" mean?
As an adjective, "quadrillé" means: Marqué de carreaux.
How do you pronounce "quadrillé"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "quadrillé" is \ka.dʁi.je\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "quadrillé" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list