quart
\kaʁ\
The verdict
“quart” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #2,733 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #2,733
- frequency rank, French
- 5
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Partie d’une unité subdivisée en quatre parties égales. 1/4.
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 | quart |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,733 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “quart” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for quart is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kaʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,733 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for quart, with forms such as "qaurt", "qquart", and "quarrt". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "quot", "quasi", "quest", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is quart, spelled Q-U-A-R-T.
Definition
- 1Partie d’une unité subdivisée en quatre parties égales. 1/4.
- 2Le quart d’une heure, soit quinze minutes.
- 3Un changement de travailleurs, en particulier un groupe de travailleurs ou une période de temps de travail.
- 4Le quart de l’unité sous-entendue, qui était souvent la livre (soit dans ce cas 125 grammes), mais qui peut aussi être le kilogramme (le quart valant alors 250 grammes) ou une autre unité. Reste usité pour le quart de litre, soit 25 centilitres.
- 5Temps, en général de quatre heures, pendant lequel une personne ou une équipe est de service.
- 6Temps de veille d’une vigie, d’une sentinelle.
- 7Petit gobelet de fer-blanc avec une anse qui contient un quart de litre, la ration de vin ou de café des soldats et qui faisait partie du paquetage.
- 8Bouteille de vin, correspondant environ au quart d’une bouteille classique de 75 cL, soit 20 cL.
- 9Commissaire de police, par extension poste de police.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: qaurt,qquart,quarrt,quartt,quatr,qurat,uqart
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of quart - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “quart”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is Q-U-A-R-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kaʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “quot” - see the side-by-side comparison. quart vs quot
- 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.