quadriller
\ka.dʁi.je\
The verdict
“quadriller” is uncommon French (frequency #93,136 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,136
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Diviser en utilisant un quadrillage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quadriller · quadriller · French
quadriller · rank #93,136 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,136
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH quadripartite
Nearest frequency peer: quadripartite (+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 « quadriller »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- PVV
PVV
6,869 corpus weight
- pénétrantes
pénétrantes
6,868 corpus weight
- périnéale
périnéale
6,867 corpus weight
- quadriller
quadriller
6,865 corpus weight
- quadriparti…
quadripartite
6,864 corpus weight
- qualifies
qualifies
6,863 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « quadriller » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quadriller |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ka.dʁi.je\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #93,136 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « quadriller » en français
Rare enough to double-check
quadriller is uncommon French at frequency #93,136 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ka.dʁi.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for quadriller, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is quadriller, spelled Q-U-A-D-R-I-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Diviser en utilisant un quadrillage.
- 2Contrôler une zone de territoire en la divisant en sections surveillées par des policiers ou des militaires.
- 3Danser le quadrille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quadriller appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quadriller du papier.
À travers le guichet nous apercevions seulement le commis, qui quadrillait une feuille, avec colère, comme s’il poursuivait pour le rayer un mot insaisissable.
Synonyms
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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