quarantième
\ka.ʁɑ̃.tjɛm\
The verdict
“quarantième” is uncommon French (frequency #51,684 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,684
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui concerne l’ordinal ou la fraction quarantième.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quarantieme · quarantième · French
quarantième · rank #51,684 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,684
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH périphéries
Nearest frequency peer: périphéries (-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 « quarantième »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- psychédéliq…
psychédéliques
48,320 corpus weight
- pump
pump
48,319 corpus weight
- périphéries
périphéries
48,318 corpus weight
- quarantième
quarantième
48,317 corpus weight
- quasimodo
quasimodo
48,316 corpus weight
- quatuors
quatuors
48,315 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « quarantième » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quarantième |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.ʁɑ̃.tjɛm\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #51,684 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « quarantième » en français
Rare enough to double-check
quarantième is uncommon French at frequency #51,684 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ka.ʁɑ̃.tjɛm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui concerne l’ordinal ou la fraction quarantième.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for quarantième, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is quarantième, spelled Q-U-A-R-A-N-T-I-È-M-E.
Definition
- 1Qui concerne l’ordinal ou la fraction quarantième.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quarantième appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous avons, en effet, de lui, un sermon composé pour le jour de l’Ascension et prononcé dans la ville d’Antioche avant son épiscopat et il n'y a aucun motif de prétendre que cette fête ait été célébrée un autre jour que le quarantième après Pâques, par conséquent un jeudi.
Je devais passer une quarantième nuit au désert.
Synonyms
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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