quadrupèdes
\kwa.dʁy.pɛd\
The verdict
“quadrupèdes” is uncommon French (frequency #76,053 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,053
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de quadrupède.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quadrupedes · quadrupèdes · French
quadrupèdes · rank #76,053 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,053
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH quadrige
Nearest frequency peer: quadrige (-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 « quadrupèdes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pétille
pétille
23,953 corpus weight
- quadrige
quadrige
23,949 corpus weight
- quadrupèdes
quadrupèdes
23,948 corpus weight
- questeurs
questeurs
23,947 corpus weight
- racisées
racisées
23,944 corpus weight
- rajoutait
rajoutait
23,943 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « quadrupèdes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quadrupèdes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kwa.dʁy.pɛd\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #76,053 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « quadrupèdes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
quadrupèdes is uncommon French at frequency #76,053 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kwa.dʁy.pɛd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de quadrupède.".
quadrupèdes doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is quadrupèdes, spelled Q-U-A-D-R-U-P-È-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de quadrupède.
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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