quarante

\ka.ʁɑ̃t\

/\ka.ʁɑ̃t\/ adj

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The verdict

“quarante” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,178. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#4,178
frequency rank, French
352
“Q” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Trente-neuf plus un, soit quatre fois dix, adjectif numéral cardinal correspondant au nombre 40.

Corpus desk

Index FR-quarante · quarante · French

quarante · rank #4,178 · 11 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-COMMON #4,178
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 352
  • PHOTO-FINISH publiés

Nearest frequency peer: publiés (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « quarante »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « quarante » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

quarante vs quadrant
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for quarante
PropertyValue
Headwordquarante
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ka.ʁɑ̃t\
Letters8
Frequency rank#4,178
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « quarante »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.quarantese place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « publiés » (#4,177), « quête » (#4,179), « possibilités » (#4,176). Parmi 352 lemmes en « Q », « quarante » est au #4,178. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around quarante (IPA \ka.ʁɑ̃t\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,178 among 352 “Q” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

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

  1. 1
    Trente-neuf plus un, soit quatre fois dix, adjectif numéral cardinal correspondant au nombre 40.
  2. 2
    Quarantième.
  3. 3
    Les quarante de l’Académie française ou, elliptiquement, les quarante, les membres de l’Académie française.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Si le cœur leur en disait, il leur céderait le poisson pour quarante sous, et ils auraient ainsi de quoi souper.
  2. On se demandait, sachant ce que la rumeur publique reprochait à cette femme, quel charme des hommes de guerre, aux abois, c’est vrai, avaient pu trouver à une créature osseuse et fanée, qui portait ses quarante ans comme un pauvre des fagots d’épines.

Synonyms

immortelsdeux vingts

This word in other languages

forty(English)cuarenta(Español)vierzig(Deutsch)quarenta(Português)

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.

qaurante2qquarante1quaarnte2quaranet2quarannte1quarantte1quaratne2quarnate2
Edit distance from "quarante"

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 "quarante"?
"quarante" is spelled Q-U-A-R-A-N-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.ʁɑ̃t\.
What does "quarante" mean?
As an adjective, "quarante" means: Trente-neuf plus un, soit quatre fois dix, adjectif numéral cardinal correspondant au nombre 40.
What words are commonly confused with "quarante"?
"quarante" is commonly confused with "quadrant". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "quarante"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "quarante" is \ka.ʁɑ̃t\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "quarante" come from?
"quarante" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

patience#4,174opinions#4,170napoléon#4,166terminée#4,193

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

publiés11 variantsrestant11 variantsscrutin11 variantsuniforme11 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list