quarry
\ˈkwɒɹ.i\
The verdict
“quarry” is uncommon French (frequency #88,002 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,002
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Proie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quarry · quarry · French
quarry · rank #88,002 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,002
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH quadrupler
Nearest frequency peer: quadrupler (-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 « quarry »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Qatarie
Qatarie
12,002 corpus weight
- quadrillée
quadrillée
12,001 corpus weight
- quadrupler
quadrupler
12,000 corpus weight
- quarry
quarry
11,999 corpus weight
- quatro
quatro
11,998 corpus weight
- quesne
quesne
11,996 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « quarry » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quarry |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈkwɒɹ.i\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #88,002 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « quarry » en français
Rare enough to double-check
quarry is uncommon French at frequency #88,002 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈkwɒɹ.i\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Proie.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for quarry in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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. The correct French form is quarry, spelled Q-U-A-R-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Proie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quarry appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The deer were driven off the fields and into cover. Just what the archers needed to bring their quarry into range.
Spot a squirrel up in the branches, make the shot, retrieve your quarry and paddle on down river until you find another.
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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