quarante et une
The verdict
“quarante et une” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Féminin de quarante et un.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quarante et une |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.ʁɑ̃.t‿e.yn\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “quarante et une” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for quarante et une is 15 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.ʁɑ̃.t‿e.yn\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Féminin de quarante et un.".
No misspelling variants are generated for quarante et une in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is quarante et une, spelled Q-U-A-R-A-N-T-E- -E-T- -U-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Féminin de quarante et un.
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Using “quarante et une”
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- -E-T- -U-N-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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