quarante
\ka.ʁɑ̃t\
The verdict
“quarante” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #4,178 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #4,178
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Trente-neuf plus un, soit quatre fois dix, adjectif numéral cardinal correspondant au nombre 40.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quarante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.ʁɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,178 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “quarante” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for quarante is 8 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.ʁɑ̃t\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,178 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for quarante, with forms such as "qaurante", "qquarante", and "quaarnte". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "quadrant", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is quarante, spelled Q-U-A-R-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Trente-neuf plus un, soit quatre fois dix, adjectif numéral cardinal correspondant au nombre 40.
- 2Quarantième.
- 3Les quarante de l’Académie française ou, elliptiquement, les quarante, les membres de l’Académie française.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: qaurante,qquarante,quaarnte,quaranet,quarannte,quarantte,quaratne,quarnate,quarrante,quraante,uqarante
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of quarante - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “quarante”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is Q-U-A-R-A-N-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ka.ʁɑ̃t\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “quadrant” - see the side-by-side comparison. quarante vs quadrant
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.