quart
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,733
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
17
similar word pairs
quart is aFrenchnoun. It means: Partie d’une unité subdivisée en quatre parties égales. 1/4. Pronounced \kaʁ\. It ranks #2,733 in French word frequency. Often confused with quot and quasi.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for quart is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for quart, with forms such as "qaurt", "qquart", and "quarrt". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "quot", "quasi", "quest", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 quart, spelled Q-U-A-R-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: qaurt,qquart,quarrt,quartt,quatr,qurat,uqart
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for quart
Misspelling Variants of "quart"
Frequency rank: #2,733 in French
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