quadrupède
\kwa.dʁy.pɛd\
The verdict
“quadrupède” is uncommon French (frequency #78,776 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,776
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a quatre pieds.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quadrupede · quadrupède · French
quadrupède · rank #78,776 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,776
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH pénétrez
Nearest frequency peer: pénétrez (-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 « quadrupède »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pyrénéennes
pyrénéennes
21,228 corpus weight
- pâteux
pâteux
21,227 corpus weight
- pénétrez
pénétrez
21,226 corpus weight
- quadrupède
quadrupède
21,225 corpus weight
- qualifierait
qualifierait
21,224 corpus weight
- quenouille
quenouille
21,223 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « quadrupède » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quadrupède |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kwa.dʁy.pɛd\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #78,776 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « quadrupède » en français
Rare enough to double-check
quadrupède is uncommon French at frequency #78,776 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kwa.dʁy.pɛd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui a quatre pieds.".
No misspelling variants are generated for quadrupède in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is quadrupède, spelled Q-U-A-D-R-U-P-È-D-E.
Definition
- 1Qui a quatre pieds.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how quadrupède appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Parmi les animaux quadrupèdes, il y en a de sauvages et de domestiques.
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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